Murph, Roxane C. 1928-

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MURPH, Roxane C. 1928-

PERSONAL: Born June 8, 1928, in Brooklyn, NY; married A. Franklin Murph (a professor), January 28, 1948; children: Mary Murph Bader, Joseph F., Taylor C. Education: Attended University of Texas at Austin, 1945–48; Texas Christian University, B.A., 1972, M.A., 1976.

ADDRESSES: Home—3501 Medina Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76133; fax: 817-924-6433. E-mail—afmurph04@aol.com.

CAREER: Writer.

MEMBER: Medieval Academy of America, Richard III Society (chair, 1986–89; member of board of directors, 1986–88).

WRITINGS:

Richard III: The Making of a Legend, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ), 1977.

The Wars of the Roses in Fiction, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1995.

The English Civil War through the Restoration in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1625–1999, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2000.

Author of introduction and notes to Richard and Anne, by Maxwell Anderson, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 1995.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Sir Francis Biondi, John Trussell, and William Habington: Three Seventeenth Century Royalist Historians (tentative title).

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