Morgan Llywelyn’s family emigrated from Ireland to America, where she was born in New York City. Her Irish parentage automatically qualified her for dual citizenship. In 1985 she came home to Ireland to stay, following the death of her husband, Charles Winter. Llywelyn competed extensively in horse shows in the United States under her married name. She was shortlisted for the 1976 Olympic Dressage Team. Her disappointment at not making the final cut turned her interest in another direction. Encouraged by her mother, she began researching family history. The result was her first novel, The Wind from Hastings, which told the story of a Welsh ancestor of her mother’s. The book was published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, in 1976, and was an Alternate Main Selection for the Doubleday Book Club.

Llywelyn then turned to her Irish heritage. Her second novel, LION OF IRELAND: The Legend of Brian Boru, published in 1980, was researched extensively in Ireland. LION has to date sold over fifteen million copies worldwide in hard and soft cover and been translated into a number of languages. Llywelyn published THE HORSE GODDESS in 1982, the story of the earliest Celtic culture in Hallstatt in 700 BC. This book was a selection of the Book of the Month Club, voted Book of the Year for Young Adults by the American Libraries Association, and received the Best Novel of the Year Award from the National League of Penwomen. more

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