Sharan Newman, Catherine Levendeur, DaVinci Code, Templars, Guinevere
Sharan Newman

Medieval Historian and Author

Available for Speaking Engagements

 


If you'd like to book a speaking engagement or interview

For Levendeur novels or any of Sharan's mysteries,
please contact at Forge Kyle Avery

For The Real History Behind The Templars or The Real History Behind The Da Vinci Code,
please contact Tom Haushalter

 


 

 

Sharan Newman

 

2008 Appearances

  • February 21 - St. Johns bookseller, 8622 N. Lombard, Portland, OR 503-283-0032

  • February 24 - Murder by the Book, 3210 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR, 5 pm, 97214, 503-232-9996

  • March 1 - Seattle Mystery Books 117 Cherry St Seattle, WA , noon, 98104 206-587-5737
    www.seattlemystery.com or contact: staff@seattlemystery.com

  • March 6- Reception , Library of the Heathman Hotel, Portland OR, 5:00 - 5:45 pm

  • March 7 - March 9 - Left Coast Crime, Denver, CO

  • March 10 - Tempe Public Library, Tempe, AZ, with Cara Black and Libby Hellman, 3:30 pm
    Tempe Public Library

  • March 10- Poisoned Pen, 4014 N Goldwater Blvd. Suite 101 Scottsdale, AZ 85251, 7:00 pm, (888) 560-9919
    Poisoned Pen

  • March 12 - Powell’s, Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, OR

  • April 3 - April 6 - Medieval Academy meeting, Vancouver, BC

  • April 13 - Mysterious Galaxy, 705 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302 San Diego, CA 92111, 2:00 pm, ph. 858-268-4747

  • April 9 - “Murder with Friends” Powells, Beaverton, Portland, OR 6:30 pm

  • April 15 - Book'em Mysteries 1118 Mission St TS. Pasadena, CA 5:00 pm, 91030 626-799-9600 www.bookem.com

  • April 16 - Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Thousand Oaks, CA 1:00 pm, 91362, ph. 805-374-0084

  • April 24 - April 27 - Malice Domestic, Washington DC

  • May 7 - May 11 - Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI

  • August 15 – 18 - Guest of Honor, Mythopoeic annual conference, Hartford CT
    Mythcon39

Sharan's Interviews

Da Vinci Code Declassified on The Learning Channel (check local listings)

Da Vinci's Code Revealed on The National Geographic Channel (check local listings)

Behind The Da Vinci Code on The History Channel (check local listings)

 

Sample Lecture Topics:

  • Women's Lost History: How women were written out of the history books.
  • Writing the Historica1 mystery
  • Myths of the Middle Ages: Braveheart Revised
  • The Jews of Ashkenaz: Life in Europe before the Crusades
  • Speaking and Seminar Engagements have included:

  • Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Wisconsin, Rice University, American Association of University Women, Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Sisters in Crime Bare Bones Writers Conference, Ohio State University, Rhodes College, Trent University, Ontario, Canada. Numerous library and bookstore appearances throughout the United States and Canada.