The Summer Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine is an icon, a beloved 12th Century monarch that historians have fawned over for centuries. The Historical Novel Society has dubbed the author the best Medieval fiction writer in the business. Elizabeth Chadwick AwardsĬhadwick won the Betty Trask Award. In the years that followed, Chadwick started receiving awards recognition, a development that bolstered the author’s faith in her abilities. For instance, Columbia Pictures asked her to write the novel version of ‘First Knight’ featuring Sean Connery and Richard Gere. Before long, opportunities she never expected started knocking on her door. Chadwick knew she was improving because she kept winning competitions.Įventually, a literary agent called Carole Blake came along and gave the author the chance she deserved. She took pride in the fact that every new project she wrote to completion made her a better writer. But Chadwick was writing because she loved the activity, and the rejections were not enough to discourage her. Publishers wanted nothing to do with her.
But the author refused to abandon her hobby. Years later, her husband came along, and she gave birth to children. Instead, it gave her a reason to do research.Įven at the age of 15, she was determined to get her portrayal of the Middle Ages right. But for Chadwick, ignorance wasn’t an excuse. She admits that her story was filled with historical inaccuracies because her knowledge of the Middle Ages was limited to what she had learned in school. Initially, her goal was to continue the story of the French knight she had seen in ‘Dark Crusader.’ When she watched the ‘Dark Crusader’ in her teens, Chadwick developed an unquenchable desire to write stories.
She would rope her classmates into her makeshift plays, compelling them to gallop around the classroom on imaginary horses. In school, she had a habit of acting out dramatic scenes from Scottish history. When she started watching shows like ‘The Lone Ranger’ and ‘Champion The Wonder Horse,’ Chadwick couldn’t stop inventing new episodes that allowed her to play significant roles in her favorite shows. But she would look at picture books and imagine herself inside the images. When she was three, the author was too young to read or write. Chadwick believes that storytelling is in her blood. Even though her stories won competitions, the traditional publishing arena kept rejecting them.įinally, an agent took note of ‘The Wild Hunt.’ Within a year, not only was the book published, but it won an award. She made very little headway during the initial stages of her career.
At fifteen, Chadwick started writing, penning a story set in the 12th Century that cemented her desire to write historical fiction. A significant portion of her childhood was spent in Nottingham.
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