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Gail Carriger
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Gail Carriger is an American archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction, born May 4, 1976, and a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards.
Biography
Gail Carriger was born May 4, 1976, in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California. She attended Marin Academy for high school and completed her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College. She later earned a Master of Science in archaeological materials from the University of Nottingham in England in 2000 and a Master of Arts in anthropology, with a focus on archaeology, from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008.
Carriger is known both for her work in archaeology and as an author of steampunk fiction. Her writing has been recognized with an Alex Award in 2010. The available sources describe her background in archaeology alongside her career as a fiction writer.
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Books by Gail Carriger
Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate)
Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens to find her husband gone and her doorstep occupied by supernatural soldiers, exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. Armed with a parasol, fashion, and biting civility, she investigates, upends werewolf pack dynamics, and pursues her wayward husband, including travels to Scotland.