She has also published “Tatiana’s Table”, a cookbook that is a collection of stories, recipes, and recollections from her “Bronze Horseman” trilogy. Her debut novel, called “Tully” was published in the year 1994, a book that was published in eighteen languages and twenty countries. Paullina’s work is from the genres of historical romance, romance, and historical. She has four kids with her second husband, Kevin Ryan, named Natasha, Tatiana (who is named after her protagonist in “The Bronze Horseman”), Misha, and Kevin, Jr. Her best known work is “The Bronze Horseman” but many of her books have made international bestseller lists in countries such as New Zealand and Australia. She worked on the Financial News Network as a financial journalist and a translator among all kinds of other jobs before she was a published author. She would get a political science degree at the University of Kansas. Simons went to college in Kansas, New York, and England.

When she was ten, she moved with her family to America, and finished an early attempt at writing in English at the age of twelve. This dream wound up getting put on hold when she was learning English and was overcoming the shock of a new culture. Her paternal grandpa lived through the first brutal winter of the siege of Leningrad before he joined the Red Army in the year 1942.Īs a child in Leningrad, she dreamed of becoming a writer. These are the same two rooms that Tatiana, her heroine, would live in with her family.

She lived with her civil lawyer dad and engineer mom and cousin and uncle and aunt in the two rooms they called home. This is where she set “The Bronze Horseman”, her fourth novel.

Paullina Simons was born with the name Paullina Handler in the Soviet Union during the mid-sixties.

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