Imatge de l'autor

Jean M. Auel

Autor/a de El clan de l'ós de les cavernes

36+ obres 45,662 Membres 794 Ressenyes 129 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Jean Auel was born on February 18, 1936. For many years Auel considered herself a closet poet, writing in her spare time. She came up with an idea for a short story about a girl who lives with people who are unlike her. This short-story idea became the successful novel, "The Clan of the Cave Bear." mostra'n més Auel's considerable research for the novel included field trips to archeological digs that enable her to provide an accurate depiction of humans living in with nature. The cave dweller topic interested many readers, and Auel wrote several additional books. Together, these works comprise the Earth's Children Series. Auel's writing style draws the reader into exciting speculation about prehistoric earth and its adventures. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie

Obres de Jean M. Auel

El clan de l'ós de les cavernes (1980) 12,744 exemplars
La vall dels cavalls (1982) 8,282 exemplars
Els caçadors de mamuts (1985) 7,849 exemplars
Les Planes misterioses (1980) 6,977 exemplars
Els Refugis de pedra (2002) 6,082 exemplars
La Terra de les coves pintades (2011) 2,795 exemplars
The Mammoth Hunters Part 1 Of 2 (1995) 25 exemplars

Obres associades

Mammoths (2007) — Pròleg, algunes edicions133 exemplars
The Clan of the Cave Bear [1986 film] (1999) — Original book — 42 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Auel, Jean M.
Nom oficial
Untinen, Jean Marie
Altres noms
Untinen, Jean Marie (birth name)
Auel, Jean Marie (married name)
Data de naixement
1936-02-18
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Amerika
Lloc de naixement
Chicago, Illinois, Amerika
Llocs de residència
Chicago, Illinois, Amerika
Portland, Oregon, Amerika
Educació
M.B.A. Universiteit van Portland
Portland State University
Professions
novelist
Organitzacions
Mensa
Premis i honors
Franse officier in de Orde van kunst en letteren (2008)
Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek voor haar complete oeuvre (1990)
Biografia breu
Jean Marie Untinen was born on February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. She was the second of five children. Her father was a house painter, Neil Solomon Untinen, and her mother Martha Wirtanen.

After high school, Jean M. married Ray Bernard Auel (surname pronounced like "owl"). The Auels moved to Portland, Oregon, where Jean M. raised her five children.

In 1964, Jean M. became a member of Mensa. She attended night school while working: she worked as a clerk (1965–1966), a circuit board designer (1966–1973), technical writer (1973–1974), and a credit manager at Tektronix (1974–1976). In 1976, she earned her M.B.A. at Portland State University; since then she has received honorary degrees from the University of Maine and Mount Vernon College for Women.

Three months after graduation, Jean M. still hadn't found a new job that suited her. About that time she got an idea for a short story about a prehistoric girl. She says, "The 'short story' led me to do some research; the research fired my imagination, and the wealth of material made me decide to write a novel. The first draft turned out to be more than 450,000 words and fell into six parts. On rewriting, I realized each of these six parts was a novel in itself. I have used that rough draft as the outline for the series."

In 1977, Jean M. began extensive library research of the Ice Age for her first book in Earth's Children Series. She joined a survival class to learn how to construct an ice cave, and learned primitive methods of making fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone, from aboriginal skills expert Jim Riggs, who Jean M. describes as "the kind of person you could put into one end of a wilderness naked, and he'd come out the other end fed, clothed, and sheltered."

Jean M. proceeded with work on the first novel. She rewrote it entirely four times, and some parts twenty to thirty times until she was satisfied with the end result. This was in September 1978. She had a hard time finding a publisher to take on the series, given the large task ahead - with five more novels pending. In September 1980, when The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel finally saw the light of day, it was an instant success. Within a month more than 100,000 copies had been sold, after which it was on the best-seller lists for eight more months.

After the success of the first book, Jean M. was able to travel to prehistoric sites and to meet many of the experts with whom she had been corresponding. Her research has taken her across the Old Europe from Spain to Ukraine. She has appreciated Atapuerca's discoveries and she has developed a close friendship with the French Dr. Jean Clottes, who was responsible for, among many other things, the exploration of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave discovered in 1994.

For the future Jean M. says: "I've been working 17 years on this project, and I want to do something else—maybe a mystery, or a thin little literary science fiction book, or something. But, I admit, I've learned a lot. I love the research. I can't think of anything more fun than learning anything I want and earning a living writing about it the way I want to."

Membres

Ressenyes

Primera part de la història, vaig començar a llegir-la sense saber de que anava i va atrapar-me.

La descripció dels paisatges, maltractament a la diversitat. Al mateix temps l'explicació dels costums era molt acurada.
 
Marcat
Agutzil | Hi ha 285 ressenyes més | Jan 20, 2013 |
Un clàssic de la literatura on ens descriu la manera de viure a la prehistòria. L'autor fa molta reflexió sobre el medi que els envolta, les herbes medicinals i tradicions.
 
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Agutzil | Hi ha 117 ressenyes més | Jan 20, 2013 |
magnifica continuació de la saga contant la vida de Ayla, si de cas una mica reprtitiu volen explicar les costums de la epoca
 
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alfarras52 | Hi ha 114 ressenyes més | Aug 25, 2011 |
Per mi, la millor de totes les parts. És la que d'una manera resumida ens posa en antecedents del que va el llibre, fent referència a la seva infantesa, i a la lluita per la supervivència, a com fa front a la incomprensió però també com, gràcies a l'amor, es pot plantar cara a un futur.
 
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montseflix | Hi ha 117 ressenyes més | Apr 11, 2011 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
36
També de
2
Membres
45,662
Popularitat
#355
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
794
ISBN
814
Llengües
24
Preferit
129

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