

During her college days, she used to do research on the life of Richard III for her first novel. Just after completing her academic studies, Penman began to work as a tax lawyer, before going to become a full time author. Then, she joined the School of Law at the Rutgers University and obtained her Juris Doctor degree.

Penman went on to receive her bachelor’s degree in the subject of History from the University of Texas, Austin.

She was born on Augin New York City, New York, United States and was raised in New Jersey. All of her novels series’ are known for her distinctive works and superior quality of plots. Since then, she has gone on to write a number of successful novels under five different series’. Author Sharon Kay Penman began her writing career in the year 1982 when her first novel was published. She is well known to do a lot of research work before writing her novels, which can be seen easily in the quality of her novel writings, such as the events, characterizations, various settings, etc. Most of the novels written by her revolve around the Welsh and English royalty and are set during the Middle Ages in England, France and Wales. Sharon Kay Penman is one of the famous American novelists who loves to write her novels based on the historical fiction genre.
