Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle known primarily as a writer of epic historical novels. His debut novel Sarum set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand year storyline. Educated locally and at Cambridge University and Stanford Business School, where he was a Sloan scholar, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area... around the ancient monument of Stonehenge and Salisbury. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international best-seller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.
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