Lisa Klein

Lisa Klein popularly referred, as Dr. Lisa Klein is an American author best known for the rewriting of popular Shakespearean works into “Lady Macbeth’s Daughter”, and “Ophelia” among several young adult titles. Klein was born to a biologist mother and a newspaperman father in Peoria, Illinois. She would attend Marquette University where she majored in Theology and English, but given that she could not make priest she opted to go back to school attending Indiana University, from where she graduated with a Ph. D. in literature. Her thesis on English Renaissance poetry was later published as a book and is to be found in the libraries of many universities in the US. After graduating from Indiana, she took up a job at Ohio University teaching Shakespeare and researching women’s needle works, Queen Elizabeth, and poetry for about eight years. She was so good in her research that she was granted an NEH grant for her work. But she was soon forced to leave when the university denied her tenure after she broke her leg. She left the university and turned back to writing accepting her church’s request to write its history. The assignment soon made her realize that she loved to tell stories and research, and it was not long before she published “Ophelia” her debut novel in 2006 that become a huge success among fans and critics. She published two more titles set in Roanoke Colony followed by another Shakespearean and several young adult titles. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with her family composed of her two sons and her husband.