Judith Merkle Riley

Judith Merkle Riley (January 14, 1942 – September 12, 2010) was an American writer, teacher and academic who wrote six historical romance novels.

Judith Astria Merkle was born in 1942 and grew up in Livermore, California.

Her father, Theodore Charles Merkle, ran Project Pluto, and her brothers Ralph is a pioneer in public key cryptography.

She earned a MA from Harvard University and held a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.

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