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Alana White

Procession of the Magi (detail), Benozzo Gozzoli, Medici Chapel, Florence

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I hope you’ll enjoy taking a moment to learn about me and my work, which includes both adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction. To read some reviews of my books, click on a gold title in the right-hand column. For book descriptions and other information, click on Find a Book above. For ordering information, click on the jacket of the book that interests you.

Given my lifelong fascination with Renaissance Italy, I’ve written several historical mystery short stories featuring my fifteenth-century detective, real-life Florentine lawyer and diplomat Guid’Antonio Vespucci and his adventurous nephew, Amerigo Vespucci. Recently, I completed my first historical mystery novel with the Vespuccis as my investigators. To read the stories and a couple of nonfiction articles with a Florentine flavor, choose Short Stories and Nonfiction titles in the left-hand column. You can learn more about Guid’Antonio Vespucci and Renaissance Florence by clicking on Guid’Antonio’s World in the left column. As you will see, he was a very handsome fellow.

You can learn more about me on the Bio page. And you can reach me by clicking “E-mail me” on the right.

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A Nonfiction biograpy for grades 6 - up
Sacagawea: Westward With Lewis and Clark
Celebrate 16-year-old Sacagawea's achievements as she travels 6,000 miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Coast and back again.
Fiction for middle grade readers
Come Next Spring
Can romantic-minded Salina accept the changes in her life while growing up in 1949 in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee?
Fiction and Nonfiction for adult readers
Gathering: Writers Of Williamson County
A collection featuring the works of 31 authors
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