Carolly Erickson (born January 1, 1943) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Hawaii.^[1] In 2008, her book The Tsarina's Daughter won the RT Reader's Choice Award for best Historical Fiction.^[2]

Novels

• The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette (2005)
• The Last Wife of Henry VIII (2006)
• The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise (2007)
• The Tsarina's Daughter (2008)
• The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots (2009)
• Rival to the Queen (2010)
• The Favored Queen (2011)
• The Unfaithful Queen (2012)
• The Spanish Queen (2013)

Non fiction

• The Records of Medieval Europe (1971)
• The Medieval Vision: Essays in History And Perception (1976)
• Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor (1978)
• Civilization and society in the West (1978)
• Josephine: A Life of the Empress (1980)
• Great Harry: The Extravagant Life of Henry Viii (1980)
• Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (1980) (Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (2007)
• The First Elizabeth (1983)
• Mistress Anne (1984)
• Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England (1986)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (1989)
• To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette (1991)
• Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1994)
• Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria (1997)
• Arc of the Arrow: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography (1998)
• Alexandra: The Last Tsarina (2001)
• The Girl From Botany Bay (2004)
• Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait Of Elizabeth II (2004)