Chelsea Clinton, Amelia Peabody fan

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From Jonathan Van Meter's profile of CC in the September issue of Vogue:

One day in Joplin, Chelsea insists that we go to Books-A-Million. She pulls a book off the shelf called Lion in the Valley, by Elizabeth Peters, and hands it to me: It is one in a series written by Barbara Mertz under a pseudonym. Mertz, says Clinton, "was the first woman to get her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the Oriental Institute in Chicago. And her protagonist is a woman named Amelia Peabody, who is an amalgamation of different archaeologists' wives from the Victorian era in Egypt, who were integral to many of the great discoveries there. I randomly picked up one of these books in a great used-book store during the 2008 campaign, and I fell in love with the story and the writing and gave it to my mom, and she loved it and then we gave it to my grandmom, and then all three of us read all eighteen or nineteen books."

Comments

[innerslytherin]

This pleases me. I actually haven't read most of the Pibiddy books (can't help it, I have to spell it that way *G*) but my mom adores them, and I've bought her all the books Mertz wrote on Egypt too. I'll have to pass this along to my mom.

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:-)