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name: Michelle Cameron
about: Michelle Cameron’s Babylon: a novel of Jewish Captivity (Wicked Son, 2023), is the epic saga of a Judean family exiled to Babylon. Beyond the Ghetto Gates, which was awarded a Silver Medal in Historical Fiction by the Independent Book Publishers, won First Place/Best of Category in the Chanticleer Goethe Awards and was a Foreword Indies finalist (She Writes Press, 2020), describes the effect on the lives of Italian Jews and Catholics when Napoleon demolishes Italy’s ghetto gates. The Fruit of Her Hands: the story of Shira of Ashkenaz, (Simon &amp; Schuster’s Pocket Books, 2009), is based on the author’s 13th-century rabbi ancestor. Michelle’s novel-in-verse, In the Shadow of the Globe (Lit Pot Press, 2003), a fictionalized account of William Sh Michelle Cameron’s Babylon: a novel of Jewish Captivity (Wicked Son, 2023), is the epic saga of a Judean family exiled to Babylon. Beyond the Ghetto Gates, which was awarded a Silver Medal in Historical Fiction by the Independent Book Publishers, won First Place/Best of Category in the Chanticleer Goethe Awards and was a Foreword Indies finalist (She Writes Press, 2020), describes the effect on the lives of Italian Jews and Catholics when Napoleon demolishes Italy’s ghetto gates. The Fruit of Her Hands: the story of Shira of Ashkenaz, (Simon &amp; Schuster’s Pocket Books, 2009), is based on the author’s 13th-century rabbi ancestor. Michelle’s novel-in-verse, In the Shadow of the Globe (Lit Pot Press, 2003), a fictionalized account of William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, was named Shakespeare Theatre of NJ’s 2003-4 Winter Book Selection and performed at the Stella Adler Studio’s Shakespeare Benefit. A director of The Writers Circle, Michelle teaches creative writing to children, teens, and adults in NJ and virtually. Residing with her husband in Chatham, NJ, Michelle has two grown sons of whom she is inordinately proud. ...more