Sharon Maas

Sharon Maas (born 1951) is a Guyanese-born novelist, who was educated in England, lived in India, and subsequently in Germany and in Sussex, United Kingdom.

Biography Maas was born in Georgetown, Guyana. She came from a prominently political family of Dutch, Amerindian and Afro-Caribbean descent. Her mother was one of Guyana's earliest feminists, human rights activists and consumer advocates.

She was educated in Guyana and England. After leaving school she worked as a trainee reporter with the Guyana Graphic in Georgetown, Guyana. She later wrote feature articles for the Sunday Chronicle as a staff journalist.

In 1973 she travelled overland to India via England, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. After two years in India she moved to Germany, where she married a German. As of 2016, she was working as a social worker in a German hospital. The Secret Life of Winnie Cox (2015) The Sugar Planter's Daughter (2016) The Lost Daughter of India (2017) The Orphan of India (2017) The Girl from the Sugar Plantation (2017) The Soldier's Girl (2018) The Violin Maker's Daughter (2019) Her Darkest Hour (2020)