Philip R. Clark
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She was the daughter of a pharaoh, beautiful, feminine, intelligent and a talented woman and the favorite of her father the reigning pharaoh. She was also married to her younger brother, whom she loved, but only as younger sibling. He was the logical successor to their father, but he died of some mysterious disease leaving his sister/wife to continue his rule. So when it came time for her to ascend the pharaoh’s throne she assumed the guise of a male including a false beard, that to satisfy a population whom she felt were suspicious of her and she assumed they wanted a male pharaoh. Before her brother/husband passed away he consorted with a ‘harem wife’ who in turn had a son, and an heir, who should logically have the necessary qualifications to be a pharaoh. She, also, had a lover, a great Egyptian architect and builder, who built many monuments and mortuary temples, many of which stand today, thirty-five hundred years later. But what of the female pharaoh, who preceeded Cleopatra by over fifteen hundred years, and her ambitious step-son, and thus the intrigue begins.
Born: September 17, 1923
Education: St. Thomas College (High School) Houston, Texas 1940 St. Mary’s University 1940-41 San Antonio, Texas
U.C.L.A. Los Angeles, California 1947-1948
University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1948-1951
Service United States Marine Corps 1941-1945
Personal Married to wife, Nancy since 1951
Three daughters, six granschildren, five greatgrandchildren
OTHER NOVELS BY AUTHOR
PIT STOP
UNCOVENTIONAL CONVENTON
SEPTEMBER SOUND
BENEATH THE BRICKER BARN
FOUR HANDRED AND THIRTY DAYS
STARPOWER
MARK AND ANNE
THE CHAMELEON
A long time friend refused to read any of my novels and that his inclination was more to stories based on reality. Novels, of which I have written several., are based on something imaginary, figments of my imagination, thoughts gone astray, smoke and mirrors. So I was challenged by his attitude which sent me back to another project I had set aside some time ago. It is a novel set in a period, thirty-five centuries ago when a female Pharaoh HATSHEPSUT ruled over Egypt. As you would expect she had competitors, one of which was TUTHMOSE III and who was closely related to her. In fact he claimed that he was her nephew, or better yet he was her half nephew, the son of the pharaoh, TUTHMOSE II, who just happened to be married to HATSHEPSUT, and had TUTHMOSE III not with HATSHEPSUT, but with a ‘harem’ wife, ISIS. That would make HATSHEPSUT, his stepmother. However, she was the only, and favored daughter of a phraoah and his wife.the Queen. Tuthmose III’s father was also a pharaoh, who also just happened to be HATSHEPSUT’s: husband, who by the way also was her younger brother. Please don’t be confued and just accept the idea that intermarriage and intrigues were quite common among the royalty in ancient Egypt. But that didn’t slow them down or stop the competition as to who was the legitimate pharaoh. And to confuse matters more he may even have been married to Hatshepsut’s daughter.
The verbiage will not be as spoken in that time, but will be in the contemporary mode. The customs of the time will more closely resemble those as we know them today with definite variations. In spite of the vast separation in time many things done by those at the time resemble what is done today, with volitility. I hope that this will be adequate inducement to read a book about something that just could interest any reader. In any event, I dedicate the book to my brother-in-law, Edward L. Rimpau, Jr. and hope that this one will encourage him to read a novel. PRC. Author
