Leonidas and Gorgo of Sparta - Helena P. Schrader Short Biography

Helena P. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg, which she earned witha ground-breaking biography of the German Resistance leader General Friedrich Olbricht. She has published in the leading academic journal on Ancient Sparta: “Sparta: Journal of ancient Spartan and Greek History.” She has published four non-fiction works on modern European history, and ten novels, including Book I of the Leonidas Trilogy. Her three earlier novels set in Archaic Sparta were well received by reviewers. Three of her novels have received literary awards.

Schrader is a career Foreign Service Officer. In June 2010, she was awarded the “Dr. Bernard LaFayette Lifetime Achievement Award for Promoting the Institutionalization of Nonviolence Ideals in Nigeria.” She has lived on five continents, is fluent in three languages and owns property in what was once Lacedaemon, which she visits regularly. She also has a home in Blue Hill, Maine, inherited from her father, Professor Edward Page.

HELENA P. SCHRADER

HISTORIAN, NOVELIST, DIPLOMAT