She also tried her hand at various other professions like credit manager and also a technical writer. She now lives happily in Portland, Oregon with Ray Bernard Auel, her husband and their five beautiful children.īefore becoming a professional writer, Jean used to work as a clerk during 1965-66, while still studying. This is something that she feels awkward about very often.
Jean’s typical surname is such that it is sometimes misunderstood as ‘owl’ (Auel) when pronounced without looking at the spelling. The series was such a hit that it went on to sell more than 34 million copies all over the world and was also translated into multiple languages. The series deals with the interactions of the Cro-Magnon people with the Neanderthal people during the time of prehistoric Europe. Jean is particularly known for his world famous novel series, “Earth’s Children”, which a set of several historical fiction novels. She has the real name, Jean Marie Untinen and was born as the second child among a total of five siblings. Jean’s father was a house painter by profession whereas her mother was a homemaker.
She was born in the year 1936 in Chicago, United States to Neil Solomon Untinen and Martha Wirtanen. Jean M Auel is a noteworthy author from the United States who has written a number of novels in the Literature & Fiction genre.
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