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Amanda Cockrell

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Amanda Cockrell is an American author of historical fiction, young-adult literature and speculative fiction. Raised in Ojai, California, she worked as a newspaper reporter and advertising copywriter before entering academia. She founded Hollins University’s graduate programmes in children’s literature in 1992 and directed them until her retirement in 2018. Cockrell has received fiction fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Cockrell has published several novels under the name Damion Hunter, including The Legions of the Mist, The Wall at the Edge of the World and the Centurions series, which explore Roman Britain, the imperial frontier and conflicts between Roman soldiers and local peoples. Under her own name, she wrote the Deer Dancers and Horse Catchers trilogies, mythological historical novels set among the pre-Columbian peoples of the American Southwest. Her other works include Pomegranate Seed, set during the Hollywood blacklist; the young-adult novel What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay; and Coyote Weather, which follows several characters through 1960s California and the Vietnam War.

Periods and events

Battle of Mons Graupius83 CE Hadrian’s Wall122–410 CE Nerva–Antonine Dynasty96–192 CE Reign of Domitian81–96 CE Reign of Hadrian117–138 CE Reign of Vespasian69–79 CE Roman Britain43–410 CE Roman Britain under the Flavians69–96 CE Roman Danube Frontier15 BCE–476 CE Roman Germania and the Rhine Frontier9–260 CE Roman Gladiatorial Games264 BCE–404 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Amanda Cockrell (2 series)

Centurions in Order

by Amanda Cockrell 4 books 4.4(6,096)

The Centurions quartet follows the half-brothers Correus and Flavius Appius Julianus from military apprenticeship during Vespasian’s reign to senior command under Domitian. Correus, born to an enslaved German woman, possesses the skills of a natural soldier but lacks legitimate status; Flavius inherits rank but must struggle to earn…

Borderlands in Order

by Amanda Cockrell 3 books 4.3(4,794)

The Borderlands trilogy follows Faustus Valerianus, the son of a Roman veteran and a British woman enslaved during Claudius’s conquest. Beginning with Agricola’s northern campaigns, Faustus attempts to build a Roman military identity while the communities being subdued include his mother’s people. His attachment to Constantia, responsibility for…

Historical fiction

Standalone historical fiction by Amanda Cockrell (2 books)

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