Leonardo's Swans A Novel

KAREN ESSEX is the author ofKleopatra(Warner, 2001) and its sequelPharoah(Warner, 2002), two biographical novels about the queen of Egypt which she has adapted into a screenplay for Warner Bros. She has also adapted Anne Rice's novelThe Mummy of Ramses the Damnedinto a screenplay for Titanic director James Cameron and 20th Century Fox, and has written a screenplay about Kamehameha, the first king of Hawaii, for Columbia/Tristar. Essex's articles, essays and profiles have been published inVogue, Playboy, The L.A. Weekly, L.A. Style,and many other periodicals. After being awarded highest honors from the Los Angeles Press Club for her thought-provoking cover story about the missing 1950s pinup icon Bettie Page, Essex co-authored the biographyBettie Page: Life of a Pinup Legend(Stoddart, 1996). Essex is the first and only journalist with whom the reclusive Ms. Page has ever agreed to meet and cooperate. Essex was born and raised in New Orleans. She graduated from Tulane University, attended graduate school at Vanderbilt University, and received an MFA in Writing from Goddard College in Vermont.Essex, Karen is the author of 'Leonardo's Swans A Novel', published 2006 under ISBN 9780739325780 and ISBN 0739325787.