"I was raising a family, having grandchildren. Life gets in the way," says Auel, who at her current pace would be in her 80s by the time a seventh volume came out. "All the books have been difficult ...

This spring, bestselling author Jean Auel will publish The Land of Painted Caves, the sixth and final installment in the Earth's Children series, which began with the 1980 classic The Clan of the Cave ...

a young human girl, to help a crippled Neanderthal man get a drink of water. The problem was, Auel didn't know if Neanderthals had cups -- or if they did, how they used them. ''How do you get a drink ...

Long before J.K. Rowling turned Harry Potter into a publishing phenomenon, another female author, Jean Auel, was launching her own bestselling series set in prehistory which concludes on Tuesday with ...

Portland author Jean Auel has been named an Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters by the French Minister of Culture and Communication. Auel is the author of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and four other ...

BEA has its big book: today Crown and the Jean Naggar Literary Agency announced that the sixth and final book of Jean M. Auel's record-breaking, bestselling Earth’s Children series will be published ...