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{{short description|American novelist}}
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'''Christopher Willis Gortner''' is an American author of [[historical fiction]], including the novels ''The Last Queen'', ''The Confessions of Catherine de Medici'', and the ''Spymaster Trilogy''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Last Queen book review|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-50184-4|website=publishersweekly.com|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=10 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Confessions of Catherine de Medici|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-50186-8|website=publishersweekly.com|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=10 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Tudor Secret|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-65850-2|website=publishersweekly.com|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=10 November 2014}}</ref>
His novels are translated in over 25 languages. ''The Queen’s Vow'' was an international bestseller in Poland. ''Mademoiselle Chanel'' was a USA Today best-seller, an American Booksellers Association bestseller, and both ''The Last Queen'' and ''Marlene'' were Marin Independent Journal best-sellers. He was named one of the top ten historical novelists by The Washington Independent Review of Books and has delivered keynote speeches as a Guest of Honor at the Historical Novel Society Conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom. For ten years before he was published and became a full-time writer, he was a public health administrative analyst. Previously, he worked as a fashion executive.
==Personal life==
Gortner was raised in [[Málaga]], [[Spain]] and is half-Spanish by birth. His family moved back to the U.S. when he was in his teens.<ref name="interview" >{{cite web|title=A Chat with Author Christopher Gortner|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kims/2009/05/14/a-chat-with-author-christopher-gortner|website=blogtalkradio.com|date=14 May 2009 |publisher=Blog Talk Radio|accessdate=10 November 2014}}</ref> He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in San Francisco and [[Masters of Fine Arts]] in Writing with a concentration in Renaissance Studies from the [[New College of California]]. He lives in Northern California.<ref name="interview" />
==Books==
*''The Last Queen: A Novel'' Ballantine Books, {{ISBN|978-0345501844}}, (2008), the history of [[Joanna of Castile]]
*''The Confessions of Catherine De Medici: A Novel'' Ballantine Books,  {{ISBN|978-0345501868}}, (2010), the history of [[Catherine de' Medici]]
*''The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile'' Ballantine Books, {{ISBN|978-0345523969}}, (2012), the history of [[Isabella I of Castile]]
*''Mademoiselle Chanel: A Novel'' William Morrow and Company, {{ISBN|978-0062356406}}, (2015), the history of [[Coco Chanel]]
*''The Vatican Princess:'' ''A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia'' Ballantine Books, {{ISBN|9780-345523969}} (2016), the history of [[Lucrezia Borgia]]
*''Marlene: A Novel of Marlene Dietrich '' William Morrow and Company {{ISBN|00624-0606X}} (2016), the history of [[Marlene Dietrich]]
*''The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna'' Ballantine Books {{ISBN|00624-0606X}} (2018) the history of [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Maria Feodorovna]]
* ''The First Actress. A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt''  Ballantine Books {{ISBN|9781524799076}} (2020), the history of [[Sarah Bernhardt]]
* ''The American Adventuresss: A Novel'', [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]]/[[HarperCollins]] {{ISBN|9780063035805}} (2022), the history of [[Lady Randolph Churchill|Jennie Jerome Churchill]]
'''The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles'''
* ''The Secret Lion'' Heliographica Press {{ISBN|9781933037356}} (2004)
*: in 2011 released as ''The Tudor Secret'' with an additional scene<ref>[http://www.cwgortner.com/TheTudorSecret.html ''The Tudor Secret''], C.W. Gortner -- Official Author Website [retrieved 2023-04-18]</ref> (St. Martin's Press, {{ISBN|978-0-312-60390-8}})
*''The Tudor Conspiracy'' St. Martin's Press, {{ISBN|978-1-250-04277-4}}, (2013)
*''The Tudor Vendetta'' St. Martin's Press, {{ISBN|978-1-250-05853-9}} (2014)
==External links==
* http://www.cwgortner.com/
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