Works About Jean
Old Interviews and Articles

Radio Interview:

Interview from a January 1987 broadcast of the radio program: New Letters on the Air out of Kansas City, MO. Available on audio cassette from Amazon. Lots of good questions asked by show host Rebecca Prezin and good insight into Jean Auel through her answers! Also includes Jean reading excerpts from Chapter 12 of The Clan of the Cave Bear after Ayla's run-in with the lynx. Hear Jean's pronunciation of the names Ayla, Iza & Zoug!   (29 minutes long)

Web-Based Articles:

Coda June/July 1984 (now called the Poets & Writers Magazine) - The Working Vacation: Summer Writers' Conferences by Daryln Brewer. The 8th subject in the article is entitled Clan of the Cave Bear Discovery. Three paragraphs about Jean's discovery by agent Jean Naggar!

Articles & Interviews (print):

Title: Publishers Weekly interviews Jean Auel.
Author: Bongartz, Roy
Source: Publishers Weekly v. 228 (Nov. 29 '85) p. 50-1
Notes: interview

Title: A Mammoth first printing makes Jean Auel's new epic an instant best-seller.
Author: Chambers, Andrea.
Source: People Weekly v. 24 (Dec. 16 '85) p. 113-14+
Notes: none available

Title: Lindsy Van Gelder on Jean Auel.
Author: Van Gelder, Lindsy.
Source: Ms. Magazine v. 14 (Mar. '86) p. 64+
Notes: biography

Title: Queen of the ice age romance.
Author: Hornblower, Margot.
Source: Time Magazine v. 136 (Oct. 22 '90) p. 88
Notes: biography

Title: Auel, Jean M(arie).
Author: none given
Source: Current Biography v. 52 (Feb. '91) p. 3-7
Notes: Jean Marie Auel, novelist and author of "The Clan of the Cave Bear," is profiled. Her writing shows a determination to restore the reputation of prehistoric man as being compassionate, clever and sexy.

Title: The Marketing of 'The Plains of Passage' : 'A Lot of Anticipation.'
Author: Crichton, Jean
Source: Publishers Weekly Aug 31, 1990, v237n35, p. 44-45
Notes: The excitement involved with the Fall 1990 publication of Jean M. Auel's fourth Earth Children novel, "The Plains of Passage," is detailed. The novel will be Auel's first since 1985.

Title: Love in the Ice Age.
Author: Carlin, Margaret.
Source: Chicago Tribune Dec 24, 1990, 5, 7:3 CT
Notes: Author Jean Auel, author of the Earth's Children series which includes such titles as "Clan of the Cave Bear," is respected for her research and the attention she pays to detail in her stories of prehistoric humans.

Title: Jean Auel to Help Heath Cut Debt
Author: Carman, Diane.
Source: Denver Post Jun 11, 1991, E, 1:3 DP
Notes: Author and political activist Jean Auel, who will be speaking at Executive Tower Inn in Denver on Jun 12, 1991, is profiled.

Title: Why Readers Warm Up to the Ice Age.
Author: Christy, Marian.
Source: Boston Globe Nov 25, 1990, A, 15:3 BG 0743-1791
Notes: Marian Christy interviews novelist Jean M. Auel, whose books feature characters from the Ice Age.

Title: Cover Story : Passages in Time.
Author: Donahue, Deirdre.
Source: USA Today Oct 23, 1990, D, 1:3 US 0734-7456
Notes: Oregon grandmother and author Jean Auel, 54, has achieved fame and fortune through her meticulously researched sagas of life in Ice Age Europe.

Title: Making Mammoth Best Sellers.
Author: Graham, Sandy.
Source: USA Today Oct 12, 1990, USW, 6:1 US 0734-7456
Notes: Jean M. Auel, praised for her ice age novels, shares her views on the ice age and being a writer in an interview.

Title: Author Hits Prehistoric Heights.
Author: Hanson, Cynthia.
Source: Christian Science Monitor Dec 31, 1990, 13:2 CS 0882-7729
Notes: Novelist Jean M. Auel is profiled. Her fourth novel, "The Plains of Passage," has become a bestseller, and she has won recognition from the scientific community for her extensive research into the conditions of the Pleistocene Epoch, which form the settings for her novels.

Title: Jean Auel's Improbable Story Upstages Her Own Books.
Author: Harrington, Maureen.
Source: Denver Post Dec 5, 1990, E, 1:1 DP
Notes: Jean Auel, in Denver to promote the publication of her new novel "The Plains of Passage," discusses how she began writing novels in middle age, and how her best-selling success changed her life.

Title: Auel's Cro-Magnons Evolve in a Big Way.
Author: Holt, Patricia.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Oct 25, 1990, E, 1:2 SF
Notes: Author Jean M. Auel is profiled. Her latest novel, "The Plains of Passage," continues the theme begun in her first book, "Clan of the Cave Bear," which tells the tale of a Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a family of Neanderthals.

Title: 'Cave Bear' Epic.
Author: Libman, Norma.
Source: Chicago Tribune Dec 16, 1990, 6, 3:1 CT
Notes: Jean Auel, 54, who grew up in Chicago, started writing at age 40 and has penned the successful "Earth's Children" series, the latest of which is "The Plains of Passage."

Title: The Mass-Marketing of Jean Auel.
Author: Mehren, Elizabeth.
Source: Los Angeles Times Oct 14, 1990, BR, 1:1 LA 0458-3035
Notes: Elizabeth Mehren comments on the success of author Jean Auel.

Title: The Mammoth Huntress ... And Her Prehistoric Gold Mine.
Author: Pisik, Betsy.
Source: Washington Times Nov 20, 1990, E, 1:4 WT 0732-8494
Notes: Author Jean Auel and her "Earth's Children" prehistoric series are featured.

Title: A Matriarch Promotes Her Literary Clan.
Author: Venant, Elizabeth.
Source: Los Angeles Times Oct 28, 1990, E, 1:6 LA 0458-3035
Notes: Author Jean Auel is profiled.