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English novelist

This article is about the historical novelist.

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For the American bishop (born 1948), see G. Lindsey Davis.

Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.

She is a recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award.

Life and career

Davis was born in Birmingham and after taking a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall),^[1] she became a civil servant for 13 years.

When a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, at first writing romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm.

One of these, The Bride from Bithynia, was published in her 2023 collection Voices of Rome.^[2]

Her dedication of the book Rebels and Traitors (2009) reads: "For Richard / dearest and closest of fri