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I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

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Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.

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I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

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Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

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Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

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It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

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It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

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I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 20th, 1961

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