HELENA P. SCHRADER

HISTORIAN, NOVELIST, DIPLOMAT

Helena P. Schrader holds a PhD in history from the University of Hamburg, which she earned with a 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 nonfiction works on modern European history and twelve novels.  Six of her novels are set in archaic Sparta.  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.

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