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Geoffrey Edmund Fox

Born: 1941 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Geoffrey was born in Chicago and raised in LaGrange; since 2006 he has lived in Spain.

Biography: Geoffrey was born in Chicago, graduated from Harvard in 1963 and then worked in Caracas, Venezuela as a community developer before earning my PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and taught in Latin America and the U.S.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: gf@geoffreyfox.com
Website: http://geoffreyfox.com
Geoffrey Edmund Fox on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=geoffrey+edmund+fox


Selected Titles

  A gift for the Sultan /
ISBN: 1451582021 OCLC: 745402558

Torre del Rayo, [Place of publication not identified] : 2010.

In 1402, the Christian city of Constantinople is under attack by a Muslim army. With surrender in the wind, the spoils are to be the key to the city and the 14-year-old Princess Theodota. In the twists and turns of historical fact, Geoffrey Fox delivers A Gift for the Sultan, a dramatic, fact-based novel that probes the cultural and religious life of the early 15th century and the leaders-royals, military figures, and politicians-who engaged in a religious conflict to the death. Weaving into his story a cast of historical figures-Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, his nephew Ioannes, the vezir Ali Pasha, Ottoman Sultan Bayezid, and Muslim khan Timur, among others-Fox entices readers into an era that shone a harsh light on a level of Christian-Muslim discord that changed the course of world history. Fox deftly writes of a complicated time, yet with such clarity that readers feel themselves in Constantinople and observing first-hand the unfolding drama.

  Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude /
ISBN: 0760710902 OCLC: 44119787

Barnes & Noble Books, New York : 1998.

Hispanic nation :
ISBN: 0816517991 OCLC: 36768054

University of Arizona Press, Tucson [Ariz.] : 1997.

Overcoming age-old racial, regional, and political differences, Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Spanish-language origins are beginning to imagine themselves as a single ethnic community.

  The land and people of Argentina /
ISBN: 0397323808 OCLC: 20260364

Lippincott, New York : ©1990.

Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of Argentina.

The land and people of Venezuela /
ISBN: 0060224762 OCLC: 22597572

HarperCollins, New York, NY : ©1991.

Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of Venezuela.

  Welcome to My Contri
ISBN: 0931642272 OCLC: 232654031

Lintel Pubns Co 1989

 

 

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