He moved to England in order to research Celtic legend and history. During his five years at Campus Life he wrote hundreds of articles and several non-fiction books.Īfter a brief foray into the music business-as president of his own record company-he began full-time freelance writing in 1981. His first professional writing was done at Campus Life magazine in Chicago, where he was an editor and staff writer.

Most of his early life was spent in America where he earned a university degree in Fine Arts and attended theological college for two years. Stephen was born in 1950, in Nebraska in the USA. His works include Byzantium, Patrick, and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. Lawhead's place as one of the leading historical novelists of our time. And finally this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny.Ī magnificent epic of sweep, grandeur, and heroism, Byzantium is certain to secure Stephen R. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an inmate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. Thus begins an expedition by sea and over land, as Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish Monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom.

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