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Clemence McLaren

Born

in New Jersey, The United States

November 03, 1938

Website

http://www.ClemenceMcLaren.com

Genre

Young Adult, Children's, Fiction

Influences

Greek Mythology

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Clemence McLaren was born in New Jersey on November 3, 1938 to Edward Dobson, an engineer, and Grayce Berg Dobson. She attended Rutgers University from which she received a degree in 1960. In the same year she married Robert McLaren. Together, the couple had two children, Kevin and Heather.

For a number of years she and her husband taught overseas. During this time they built a cottage on a small Greek island "only four miles from Achilles' home island of Aegina," she says. She studied the Greek language and walked the trails which dated back to antiquity. Always fascinated by the ancient myths, her own elaborations of them became stories which she first told to her students and her own family.

The McLarens later moved to Hawaii, where Clemen ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 1,958 ratings · 189 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War 3.69 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 1996 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aphrodite's Blessings 3.94 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for Odysseus 3.57 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance For The Land 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance for the Aina 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the Walls of Troy: a Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War by Clemence McLaren, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Aloha. It meant welcome and homecoming. It meant love.”
― Clemence McLaren, Dance For The Land

tags: aloha, homecoming, love, welcome

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“Kate had thought hula was something for tourists, girls in plastic skirts dancing to will songs about tiny bubbles in the champagne. Mehana's hula was different-a way of telling stories without words, a kimd of body poetry.”
― Clemence McLaren, Dance For The Land

tags: dancing, hula, story, tourists

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“Pretty small island if everybody fighting everybody.”
― Clemence McLaren, Dance For The Land

tags: fight, hate, island

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