Nobody's Prize (24 page)
Authors: Esther Friesner
Tags: #Young adult fiction, #Social Science, #Mediterranean Region, #Mediterranean Region - History - To 476, #Historical, #Argonauts (Greek mythology), #Helen of Troy (Greek mythology), #Social Issues, #Girls & Women, #Adventure and adventurers, #Juvenile Fiction, #Greek & Roman, #Fairy Tales; Folklore & Mythology, #Jason (Greek mythology), #Fiction, #Mythology; Greek, #Legends; Myths; Fables, #Action & Adventure, #General, #Gender Studies, #Sex role, #Folklore & Mythology, #Ancient Civilizations
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nebula Award winner
STHER
F
RIESNER
is the author of thirty-one novels and over 150 short stories, including “Thunderbolt” in Random House’s
Young Warriors
anthology, which led to her first novel about Helen,
Nobody’s Princess.
She is also the editor of seven popular anthologies. Her work has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, and Italy. She is also a published poet and a playwright and once wrote an advice column, “Ask Auntie Esther.” Her articles on fiction writing have appeared in
Writer’s Market
and other Writer’s Digest books.
Besides winning two Nebula Awards in succession for Best Short Story (1995 and 1996), she was a Nebula finalist three times, as well as a Hugo finalist. She received the Skylark Award from NESFA and the award for Most Promising New Fantasy Writer of 1986 from
Romantic Times.
Ms. Friesner’s latest publications include the novel
Temping Fate;
a short story collection,
Death and the Librarian and Other Stories;
and
Turn the Other Chick,
fifth in the popular Chicks in Chainmail series, which she created and edits. She is currently working on a young adult novel about the great beauty Nefertiti, which carries on in the spirit of her Helen of Troy books.
Educated at Vassar College, receiving a BA in both Spanish and drama, she went on to receive her MA and PhD in Spanish from Yale University, where she taught for a number of years. She is married and the mother of two, harbors cats, and lives in Connecticut.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Esther Friesner
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Friesner, Esther M.
Nobody’s prize / Esther Friesner. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: Nobody’s princess.
SUMMARY
: Still longing for adventure, Princess Helen of Sparta maintains her disguise as a boy to join her unsuspecting brothers as part of the crew of the Argo, the ship commanded by Prince Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
1. Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)—Juvenile fiction. [1. Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 2. Jason (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 3. Argonauts (Greek mythology)—Fiction. 4. Sex role—Fiction. 5. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 6. Mythology, Greek—Fiction. 7. Mediterranean
Region—History—To 476—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.F91662Nod 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2007008395
eISBN: 978-0-375-84985-5
v3.0