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	Steven Saylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American writer of historical novels.
		He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and Classics.
		Although he also has written novels about Texas history, Saylor's best-known work by far is his Roma Sub Rosa series, set in ancient Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Saylor (248 words)

	Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steven Saylor was born in Texas in 1956 and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied history and classics.
		Steven Saylor is the author of the ROMA SUB ROSA series of historical crime novels seven to date and more planned) set in Ancient Rome during the age of Julius Caesar and featuring the sleuth Gordianus the Finder.
		Steven Saylor has also written short stories and essays for the San Francisco Review of Books, The Threepenny Review and Ellery Queen Mystery Series and many of his short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/ssaylor.html (1837 words)

	Profile \| Steven Saylor
		It's also the inspiration behind the name author Steven Saylor gave to his fictional detective: Gordianus, star of a series of historical mysteries set in ancient Rome, the newest of which is A Mist of Prophecies.
		The 46-year-old Saylor writes his novels from a setting appropriately evocative of the Mediterranean: the sunny back deck of his house in Berkeley, California, surrounded by flowering fruit trees and the plashing of a little plug-in fountain.
		Saylor doesn't just toss a clutch of men in togas into the Forum; he describes how difficult it is to wind oneself into a toga, and how hot the stones in the Forum feel on a summer day, burning through shoe leather.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/saylor.html (2621 words)

	Twenty Questions with Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saylor may not know me by sight, but he will surely zero in on the hardcover.
		Saylor disappears and then re-emerges a couple of seconds later, making his way around the milling Café-Floristas and the scattered jumble of chairs and tables, with none other than the man with the all-seeing gaze following in his wake.
		This is Rick Solomon, the very one — the photographer of Saylor's book jacket portraits the and life's partner of 27 years to whom Saylor dedicates, in whole or in part, each one of his books.
	www.wigglefish.com /stories/0001_0019_0086.cfm?id=1650 (827 words)

	Bill Peschel's Review of "A Murder on the Appian Way" \| Steven Saylor
		Saylor takes his time developing his story, which allows the reader to tour Rome with Gordianus as his guide.
		The inability of Rome to deal with the crisis indicated a power vacuum that both Caesar and Pompey attempted to fill, and the result was a civil war which aided the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
		But to the reader, the story's the thing, and Saylor's accomplished mystery is wrapped around an ancient world that, to the imaginative mind at least, could easily look like home, and that's a worthy accomplishment for the historical writer.
	www.planetpeschel.com /Reviews/Mystery/appian.htm (299 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Judgement of Caesar: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saylor's Gordianus the Finder is starting to run Falco very close for top sleuth in the Roman crime fighters (although he is from the 1st century BC).
		Saylor's strength has always been the rich and authentic historical setting of his Rome Sub Rosa novels, with the fictional adventures of Gordianus and his other characters backed up by an engaging exploration of the Roman Republic and the rise of Julius Caesar.
		Saylor gives as equal justice to bringing alive Ptolemaic Alexandria (a city of which little remains outside fable and ancient literary sources) as he has late Republican Rome in the other novels in the 'Roma sub Rosa' series.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841199222 (1324 words)

	Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saylor explains his choice of the series title "in Ancient Egypt, the rose was the emblem of the god Horus, later regarded by the Greeks and Romans as the god of silence.
		But, thanks to Steven Saylor's skill and wry confidence, "Arms of Nemesis," the second in a series of mysteries set in the world of ancient Rome, is nothing of the sort.
		Saylor puts such great detail and tumultuous life into his scenes that the sensation of rubbing elbows with the ancients is quite uncanny.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/ssaylor1.html (1515 words)

	Owen Keehnen Interviews Steven Saylor
		Steven: I've had a prurient interest in ancient Rome and Greece from childhood, thanks mostly to the movies like 'Spartacus' (John Gavin in the baths), 'Cleopatra' (Liz in a million costumes), and of course those cheesy gladiator muscle-fests like 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves.
		Steven: There's a quote from Cicero: "Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth." That applies very much to Gordianus, my sleuth, and to me, too, which I suppose explains my addiction to both writing and reading mystery fiction: a deep longing to see the truth uncovered.
		Steven: Since I write historical fiction, the very first element is the setting, and sometimes there's an actual crime for which we've got evidence from the historical record, and that's what I build the plot from.
	www.queerculturalcenter.org /Pages/Keehnen/saylor.html (809 words)

	Steven Saylor: Catalina's Riddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fourth novel in Saylor's series about Gordianus the Finder - a series also including several short stories - tells of one of the most famous events of the last years of the Roman Republic, the Cataline Conspiracy.
		(Saylor uses the Latin spellings, hence Catalina.) Now well into middle age, Gordianus has retired to a farm north of Rome, inherited from a friend in the teeth of opposition from the friend's family, who own all the farms surrounding Gordianus' new one.
		Saylor has created a plausible story, with none of the historical characters painted as pure fl or white.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0378.html (441 words)

	Amazon.com: Last Seen in Massilia: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saylor has proven that he knows how to season a good plot with lively historical details, and this book is perhaps even more gratifying than previous installments.
		Saylor presents a vivid tableau of an ancient city under siege and an empire riven by internecine strife.
		Saylor has taken the siege of Massilia, a footnote in Caesar's career, and made it the backdrop of a gripping tale of intrigue and relationships gone sour.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312209282?v=glance (2125 words)

	Amazon.com: The Judgment of Caesar (A Novel of Ancient Rome): Books: Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steven Saylor's novels about Gordianus the Finder of Ancient Rome have not only been one of the most consistently compelling historical mystery series written, the individual volumes have grown over time in depth and power.
		Saylor has always been (unlike many others in the "Roman gumshoe" novels, now so popular) meticulous in his research and takes a given historical set of facts, then plays with their possibilities without straying from history as we know it.
		Saylor's stories are set in the Rome of legend, when the Republic is crumbling and the Empire of the Caesars is being born.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312932979?v=glance (3091 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Steven Saylor's Ancient Habit
		Steven Saylor will be at BookPeople on Thursday, May 30, at 7pm.
		Hopefully Saylor's successful leap into the 19th century prompted his readers to join him in ancient Rome, where the great majority of his mysteries are set.
		Saylor's ability to make readers feel as if they are "rubbing elbows with the ancients" is "quite uncanny," as The New York Times Book Review has observed, and although Saylor's mastery of Roman history is clearly prodigious, his mysteries bear no trace of historical showmanship or pedantry.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-05-24/books_feature.html (345 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Lost City
		In 1962, in tiny Goldthwaite, Texas, Steven Saylor is an astute six-year-old boy who has just ordered entire Roman armies and a battery-operated Roman galley from the Sears catalog.
		Saylor quickly learned that "for a very long period there, cocaine and prostitution and gambling -- everything -- was available" in Austin.
		Steven Saylor will be at the O. Henry Museum (409 E. Fifth) onThursday, April 13 at 7pm to read from and sign A Twist at the End.Waterloo Brewing Co. will be serving their O. Henry's Porter, Guy Town I.P.A., and Clara's Clara, as well as food and non-alcoholic beverages.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-04-07/books_feature.html (1065 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Roman Blood by Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By that standard, the Rome in which Steven Saylor sets his novels about Gordianus the Finder is interesting and especially deadly.
		Saylor succeeds in merging classical times to the classic detecting tradition, offering a story full of unexpected twists right up until the last page, while breathing life into Rome’s marble statues and repopulating its ruins.
		In Saylor’s hands, the human and the historical are merged, and the result is a trip to Rome unavailable through any travel agent.
	www.themysteryreader.com /saylor-roman.html (277 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Saylor, Steven
		Saylor has taken Gordianus, his detective--or "finder" in the terminology of the novels--through ten adventures.
		Saylor reports that his readers have expressed very clear opinions (sometimes contradictory) about their ideas for the future of Gordianus's family and their life in the business of crime detection.
		Saylor's current project is Roma, scheduled for publication in 2005, which he calls "my big Micheneresque panoramic saga of the origins of Rome." He hopes to follow it up with histories of the city through the Empire, the medieval and renaissance periods, and "up to Fellini."
	www.glbtq.com /literature/saylor_s,2.html (900 words)

	The Judgment of Caesar by Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Witness to the death throes of the old world, he is to play a critical role in the birth of the world to come.
		Drawing scrupulously on historical sources, this is the most ambitious novel yet in Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series.
		Saylor presents a bold new vision of Caesar and paints a compelling and original portrait of Cleopatra, amid bloodshed, battles and storms, in a setting of Egyptian magic and mystery.
	italian-mysteries.com /SS10.html (267 words)

	Mystery Guide - Roman Blood by Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some historical novelists are sketchers, some are watercolor artists, some are oil painters -- Saylor is a creator of mosaics, patiently toiling away forever to create the desired image from thousands of little tiles.
		Saylor's case I think it may be his natural style -- I mean, anyone who reads Sallust and Plutarch for fun can't exactly be a fan of stripped-down prose.
		Saylor's work is intelligent, well researched, deliberate, and written in thoughtful prose.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkSaylorBlood.html (525 words)

	Steven Saylor Bibliography
		Steven is not much given to overt autobiography, but the late, great editor John Preston coaxed him out of his shell to write three very personal essays included in Preston’s ground-breaking anthologies.
		Steven was born in Texas in 1956 and graduated with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and Classics.
		John Maddox Roberts and Steven Saylor: Detecting in the Final Decades of the Roman Republic,” in The Detective As Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction edited by Ray Broadus Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, pp.
	www.stevensaylor.com /bio.html (1996 words)

	Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I find little information about Saylor, himself, except that he hails from Texas and now resides in Berkeley, Ca., and that he is a writer of short stories and other fiction, as well as this excellent Roman mystery series which debuted in 1990.
		Saylor has evoked the smells, the sounds, the quality of the air itself of ancient Rome, and I intend to savor all the other books in this series.
		He is more affluent and now married to Bethesda (whom he has freed); they have adopted the mute boy from the first book, and acquired a few more servants, including a bodyguard.
	www.malicebooks.com /web_pages/same_crimes_paypal/saylor.htm (692 words)

	Steven Saylor: Rubicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is quite rapid progress for a series of detective novels, which often have central characters who hardly age at all over thirty years' worth of writing.
		In Saylor's series, the character has been closely if sordidly involved in a dateable sequence of historical events, which has forced him to age at a sensible rate.
		This puzzle is quite difficult, but in fact much of the book is concerned with Gordianus' atttempts to rescue members of his family from the consequences of the civil war.
	www.geocities.com /smcleish/rev0451.html (306 words)

	Amazon.ca: Last Seen in Massilia: A Novel of Ancient Rome: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The latest in Saylor's Roma sub Rosa series, Last Seen in Massilia, is probably his most compelling yet, and his wry hero's first-person narration again pulls off the brilliant sleight-of-hand of transplanting a modern sensibility into a denizen of the ancient world, while always avoiding anachronism.
		Saylor's plotting remains as deliriously convoluted as ever, while his grasp of historical detail never falters.
		For history addicts Steven Saylor not only makes the people of Massilia and their customs and culture come alive, he also breathes new life into the conflict between Pompey and Caesar.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312977875 (1596 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Rubicon by Steven Saylor
		Having survived many adventures and intrigues involving the likes of Crassus, Cicero and Catalina (great figures from history who come alive with Saylor’s storytelling) he seems to be less interested in his old life and ready to be a grandfather.
		The political unrest, the panic in the city, the rumors of battles all over Italy are described in such a way as to make the setting one of the best aspects of the story.
		Saylor creates a character with depth; Gordianus is getting to know himself better than he probably wanted to.
	www.themysteryreader.com /saylor-rubicon.html (644 words)

	ipedia.com: Steven Saylor Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steven Saylor is an American writer of historical novels.
		Steven Saylor (born 1956) is an American writer of historical novels.
		Although he also has written novels about Texas history, Saylor's best-known work by far is his Roman Sub Rosa series, set in ancient Rome.
	www.ipedia.com /steven_saylor.html (218 words)

	Arms of Nemesis by Steven Saylor, 185487974X, Lowest Book Price Finder
		There is no film or tv drama that can provide the vivid imagery Steven Saylor conjures up in your mind as you turn each page.
		Saylor is one of the gods of the pantheon.
		He has a maximum of three days to reveal the killer--be it another, or indeed the two slaves--because if he fails in his mission, ninety-nine innocent villeins of the house of Crassus will be slaughtered because of ancient law.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/185487974X (792 words)

	Twenty Questions with Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		: twenty questions : steven saylor : 2
		Steven Saylor: I think the structure came first.
		Steven Saylor: When I wrote Roman Blood, I didn't know I would be writing a series.
	www.wigglefish.com /public/0001_0019_0086.cfm?ID=1651 (1368 words)

	THE HOUSE OF THE VESTALS by Steven Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a volume of short stories featuring Gordianus The Finder and set between the first and second of his novels.
		Many of the stories are actually based on the writings of Roman authors and are either retellings of true events or items of folklore that gives them plenty of verisimilitude.
		All are meticulously researched and told in the chatty, easy-to-read (but we are sure cursed hard to write) style for which Saylor is known.
	www.myshelf.com /mystery/archive/houseofvestals.htm (177 words)

	Last Seen in Massilia by Steven Saylor
		Steven Saylor (see more BooksForABuck.com reviews of novels by this author) has created a convincing mystery set in one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the world.
		Skillfully mixing historic with fictional characters, Saylor's Roman world in the midst of its Phoenix-like transformation from Republic to Empire is fascinating.
		Saylor uses the characteristics of these three to set off the virtues of ancient Rome, and also to contrast with the machinations of the politicians.
	www.booksforabuck.com /mystery/massilia.html (366 words)

	Steven Saylor Web Site
		“Saylor evokes the ancient world more convincingly than any other writer of his generation.”
		“Though Saylor’s novels in this acclaimed series allow him more scope to describe settings and develop his secret Roman history, he still manages, especially in the book’s highlights, ‘The Cherries of Lucullus’ and ‘The White Fawn,’ to suspend disbelief and make all his characters feel real....
		For a guide to Steven’s books in 18 languages, visit his Bibliography.
	www.stevensaylor.com (343 words)

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