About Judith Merkle Riley
Lived 1942 – 2010 (aged 68). Judith Merkle Riley was an American writer, novelist, political scientist and author.
Judith Merkle Riley (January 14, 1942 – September 12, 2010) was an American writer, teacher and academic who wrote six historical romance novels.
Biography Judith Astria Merkle was born in 1942 and grew up in Livermore, California. Her great-uncle was baseball player Fred Merkle. Her father, Theodore Charles Merkle, ran Project Pluto, and her brother Ralph is a pioneer in public key cryptography. She earned a MA from Harvard University and held a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
She wrote six historical fiction novels, starting in 1988.
She was married and had two children, a daughter Elizabeth and a son Marlow.
Riley died on September 12, 2010, from ovarian cancer.
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novelist (1942–2010)
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Judith Merkle Riley was born on 14 January 1942 in Brunswick.
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Judith Merkle Riley died on 12 September 2010 in Claremont.
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Judith Merkle Riley was a writer, novelist, political scientist and author.
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