Elaine M Alphin

About

American writer of children's literature and young adult fiction. Her popular titles include The Perfect Shot, Ghost Soldier, and the Edgar Award-winning Counterfeit Son.

Before fame

One of her early works, Ghost Cadet, received a Virginia State Reading Association Award.

Trivia

Several of her young adult novels, including Simon Says and Picture Perfect, feature homosexual protagonists.

Family life

She co-wrote several biographies with her military historian husband Arthur Alphin.

Associated with

One of her novels, Tournament of Time, features the ghosts of two princes murdered by King Richard III.