Lauren Haney
American writer
Betty Winkelman (1936 – 2022), better known by the pen name Lauren Haney, was an American mystery novelist.
Biography
Starting as a government typist at the age of 18, Haney worked her way up to, ultimately, senior technical writer/editor in the aerospace and international construction industries. In the late 1980s she became interested in writing fiction, where she drew on her interest in and knowledge of ancient Egypt for a setting. Her eight published historical mystery novels are set during the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, of pharaonic Egypt's 18th Dynasty. The earlier books take place in frontier settlements along the Nile in Lower Nubia, where Lieutenant Bak and his troop of Medjay police struggle to keep order and capture offenders against the Lady Maat. Later novels are set at various locales in ancient Egypt.
Haney's novels have been published in German, English and French, and in the Czech Republic. She lived in Missouri, New York, Los Angeles, New Mexico and in Northern California. She traveled abroad frequently, especially to the Middle East, primarily Egypt, and contributed articles and book reviews to KMT and Ancient Egypt magazines. Her short story Happy Birthday, Kid, won Second Prize in an international short story contest.
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