Anna Lee Waldo
Anna Lee Waldo grew up in Montana and graduated from Montana State, Bozeman, with a degree in chemistry. She continued her studies in chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she earned her Master's Degree. She later taught at the University of Dayton, Ohio, as well as St. Louis Community College-Meremac, Missouri, finally settling in San Luis Obispo, California, where she taught at Cal Poly. Her technical writing has been publishing in a variety of scientific journals and papers.
Anna Lee's love of history began at an early age. She researched her first novel, Sacajawea, while raising her family of five children. The historical epic became a New York Times #1 bestseller, and was even nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The novel is widely recognized as the inspiring force that established the historical figure of Sacajawea as a national emblem.
Following that release with the equally stirring novel, Prairie, Anna Lee began to turn her efforts to the largely unknown early American legend of the Welsh druidic explorer, Madoc. After extensive research throughout Wales and the American South, Anna Lee drafted two preliminary novels on the subject before penning the epic Watch the Face of the Sky.
Works
Watch the Face of the Sky - 2011 - 1173 A.D. Over three hundred years before Columbus, a Welsh adventurer sails a crew of men across the Atlantic to the shores of America. He is a Druid man named Madoc, and his history is now known only to a few. Having vowed to keep themselves from mingling with the Native American people, the Welsh men in his company quickly realize that their only hope of a future on these new shores is if a handful of them return to Wales, braving both the dangers of the sea and the deathly persecution against the Druid people in their Welsh homeland. This is the story of that voyage and the journey back again - six ships laden with women dreaming of a better world. When a stormy sea diverts them to a stranger shore, they come face to face with the ancient Mayans of Chichen Itza. Threatened with death on every side, it will take more than a little cunning to find their course again. With the same medieval simplicity of her subject, Anna Lee Waldo crafts a riveting portrayal of the man behind the legend, and one woman in particular who is just brave enough to follow him wherever their ships may lead.