MAURICE ROWDON is a British writer and has published
twelve books. His novels include HELLEBORE THE CLOWN,
OF SINS AND WINTER, PERIMETER WEST (about West Berlin)
and AFTERWARDS. His biographies include LEONARDO DA
VINCI and LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT. His history works
include THE SILVER AGE OF VENICE (which he made into a
55 minute BBC film) and THE SPANISH TERROR, a study of
sixteenth-century religious persecution. His travel
books include ITALIAN SKETCHES, A ROMAN STREET and THE
COLLINS COMPANION GUIDE TO UMBRIA. His latest book,
ELKE AND BELAM, was on animal intelligence.
His publishers include, in the US, Putnam, Regnery,
Praeger, St Martin's Press.
In Britain they include
Chatto and Windus, Heinemann, Gollancz, Weidenfeld,
Collins, Constable and Macmillan. His agents have
included Georges Borchardt, Elaine Markson and Harold
Ober Associates.
He is at present represented in
the US by John Pickering and in Britain by David Bolt
Associates.
Rowdon has an MA from Keble College Oxford in Philosophy,
Politics and Economics, and after leaving Oxford he became
Lecturer in English Literature at Baghdad University.
He later began living in Italy, where he still has a home.
For the past two years or more he has been resident in
the San Francisco area.
His work in the theater includes ESKIMO TRANCE at the
Victoria Theater in Stoke on Trent, England, directed by
Peter Cheeseman, with Anton Vogel and Robert Powell.
He later directed this play with the same cast at the
Mercury Theater, London. His play MAHLER, with Vladek
Sheybal in the lead, was produced at the Arts Theater,
London, directed by Peter Watson, and Rowdon later directed
it at the Studio Theater in Munich, Germany, where he was
director of English-speaking productions.
He is at present working on a new comedy GURU GURU, and
preparing a new book in the same genre as HOW TO STOP
DYING IN CALIFORNIA, to be called THE TWISTED WORLD OF
SURROGATE SEX.