Jean auel author biography websites

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1936-    ) US author who is known solely for her enormously successful Earth's Children sequence of Prehistoric SF novels: The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), The Valley of Horses (1982), both assembled as The Clan of the Cave Bear/The Valley of Horses (omni 1994), plus The Mammoth Hunters (1985), all three assembled as Earth's Children (omni 1987), plus The Plains of Passage (1990), The Shelters of Stone (2002) and The Land of the Painted Caves (2011).

It could not be suggested that the sequence is very usefully read as sf, or that, indeed, it is intended to be read as sf; most of the events recounted – as the young Cro-Magnon protagonist Ayla grows up in the Neanderthal community which has adopted her, and begins to effect transformations in her world – are legitimate palaeo-anthropological extrapolations pastwards about the nature of human Evolution, but do not ini