Karen van der Zee
Also Writing As: Mona van Wieren
Karen van der Zee grew up in the Netherlands eating lots of Gouda cheese,
riding a bike to school, and not wearing wooden shoes. She married
an American Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa, in an unusual 10-minute
ceremony that fortunately has stuck so far. As a globetrotting writer,
she has cooked, shopped, mothered, traveled and written stories in Africa,
Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East.
Karen van der Zee is the author of 32 romance novels published by Harlequin Books, many of them set in foreign locations. She received a RITA Award for Rhapsody in Bloom, a Silhouette Romance written under the name Mona van Wieren.
As a teenager she spent much of her waking time dreaming of romance and travel (Holland is so small and so flat, you know), and she feels lucky to have her fantasies come true in her career as a writer following her development-economist husband to exotic places around the world.
Her non-fiction stories about her (mis)adventures living abroad have appeared in The Washington Post, the travel-humor anthology I Should Have Just Stayed Home by RDR Books, and other publications. Four of her humorous food-related travel tales are included in the anthology Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, by Rita Golden Gelman, to be published by Three Rivers Press on July 13, 2010.
Website: www.karenvanderzee.com; blog: www.lifeintheexpatlane.blogspot.com (Tales of the Globetrotting Life); Karen van der Zee's Booklist on her website: 1992 – present; 1979 – 1991
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The Price of a Man Karen van der Zee |
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You're Moving Where?! Karen van der Zee |
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