Lesley Hazleton (Author of After the Prophet)

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1. My new book 'Jezebel: the untold story of the bible's harlot queen' is just out (Doubleday). Yes, she was framed. No, she was no harlot. Yes, she was magnificent.

2. Won't bore you with the whole bio -- it's in the 'About the Author' page on . For now: British-born, lived for a long time in the Middle East, now live in the very Pacific Northwest.

3. Favorite drink is grappa.
Natural habitat is high desert (which must have something to do with my living on a houseboat/floating home at sea level...)
Am gnostic agnostic (and yes, will write a long piece/short book explaining that one day). ...more

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	After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam 4.09 avg rating — 9,305 ratings — published 2009 — 27 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
	The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad 3.99 avg rating — 4,817 ratings — published 2013 — 26 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
	Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto 3.75 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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
	Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen 3.85 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2007 — 9 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
	Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother 3.64 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2004 — 9 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
	Driving to Detroit: Memoirs of a Fast Woman 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1998 — 4 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
	Jerusalem, Jerusalem: A Memoir or War and Peace, Passion and Politics 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1986 — 4 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
	England, Bloody England: An Expatriate's Return 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990 — 5 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
	Confessions of a Fast Woman 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1992 — 6 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
	Where Mountains Roar: A Personal Report from the Sinai and Negev Desert 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — 6 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

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Lesley Hazleton said: " What'll I tell you? I'm finding it incredibly soothing to read this book. The very idea that if we were all to disappear tomorrow, the world would actually recover -- okay, it'd take thousands of years, but it would, it really would survive us... Wel ...more "

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Quotes by Lesley Hazleton (?)

“Assassination creates an instant hero of its target. Any past sins are not just forgiven but utterly forgotten.”
― Lesley Hazleton, After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

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“Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means.”
― Lesley Hazleton, The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

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“Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means. They are the insiders, and for them, how things are is how they should be. The status quo is so much a given that it goes not just unquestioned but unseen, and the blind eye is always turned. It is those whose place is uncertain, and who are thus uneasy in their existence, who need to ask why. And who often come up with radically new answers.”
― Lesley Hazleton, The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

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