JANET WALLACH is the author of The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, as well as Seraglio and Chanel: Her Style and Her Life. She is also coauthor, with her husband John Wallach, of three previous books on the Middle East: The New Palestinians; Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder; and Still Small Voices: The Real Heroes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. She lives in New York City.
"A major figure in the creation of modern-day Iraq." —Los Angeles
Times
"Desert Queen, as timely as today's headlines, plucks Gertrude Bell
out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston Globe
"Wallach has done an outstanding job of bringing Gertrude Bell to
life." —The Dallas Morning News
"A richly textured biography of a . . . woman who devoted her life
to knowing the desert Arabs better, perhaps, than any other
European of her day. . . . Wallach comfortably commands the tangled
political and diplomatic history of the Middle East." —Chicago
Tribune
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