Nicholas Guild
Nicholas Guild is an American novelist. He was born in Belmont, California in 1944 and educated at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in English. He currently lives in Frederick, Maryland.
His 1987 novel The Assyrian and its sequel, The Blood Star, tell the history of Tiglath Ashur, the fictional half-brother of Esarhaddon, a historical king of Assyria. The Orange Coast magazine said that book recreates the period so effectively that "you'd swear the author, Nicholas Guild, researched the book in a previous life."Novels
