Angela Elwell Hunt author page

Angela Elwell Hunt biography

Angela Elwell Hunt is an author whose work includes fiction, children’s books and books about writing. The Tale of Three Trees, illustrated by Tim Jonke, was published in 1989. Her books have won the Christy Award, Angel Awards from Excellence in Media, and Gold and Silver Medallions from Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award.

Her Keepers of the Ring sequence includes Roanoke: The Lost Colony, Jamestown, Hartford, Rehoboth and Charles Towne, with publication dates from 1996 to 1999. Her Colonial Captives books include Kimberly and the Captives, The Deadly Chase, The Whales’ Song and Lost in the Fog, all published in 1996.

Hunt’s Dangerous Beauty trilogy centres on biblical women and includes Esther: Royal Beauty, Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty and Delilah: Treacherous Beauty, published between 2014 and 2016. Her Silent Years sequence includes Egypt’s Sister: A Novel of Cleopatra, Judah’s Wife, Jerusalem’s Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra and King’s Shadow, published between 2017 and 2019.

Her Jerusalem Road sequence includes Daughter of Cana, The Shepherd’s Wife, A Woman of Words and The Apostle’s Sister, published between 2020 and 2022. Her Emissaries sequence includes The Woman from Lydia, The Sisters of Corinth and The Daughter of Rome; The Daughter of Rome was published in 2025.