Author T.K. Thorne, who has traveled in Turkey and Israel researching her books, speaks about how she accidentally became a police officer, didn't end up in a space capsule, and tackled an historical fiction novel about an unknown woman in one of the oldest and most famous stories on earth. Her award-winning debut novel, Noah's Wife, gives the Biblical story of Noah-and-the-ark a unique twist, telling the tale from the perspective of a brilliant young girl with a form of autism (now) known as Asperger's Syndrome, and setting the story in a culture that existed during a great flood in the Black Sea region thousands of years ago.

• Scientists (including Robert Ballard, the explorer who found the sunken Titanic while on a secret mission for the US government), discovered the truth about the Black Sea, once a fresh water lake, which cataclysmically became a sea around 5500 BCE.
• The oldest known worshiped deity was female. The role of the feminine in the divine was entwined with early Judaism and keeps reappearing throughout history.
&bull ;One in every 91 persons has a form of autism. The choice to make Noah’s wife an Asperger savant stemmed from personal experience in the author’s life and gives the story a unique perspective.

Noah’s Wife won ForeWord Review Magazine’s Book of the Year for Historical Fiction (2009). Thorne’s short stories and screen plays have garnered awards as well, and her monthly column in Synergy Magazine was a must-read for Birmingham’s city center for several years. A short film from her screenplay, Six Blocks Wide, was a finalist in a film festival in Italy and has shown at other festivals in the U.S. and Europe. Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, she retired from the Birmingham Police Department as a captain and currently is executive director of the business improvement district, CAP, in downtown Birmingham. She has served on several community boards, including the Alabama Writer’s Conclave, lives on a mountain east of Birmingham with dogs, cats, horses and a husband, and likes reading, going barefoot, stars, wind in high places, good friends, good food, and good ideas.

Books by T. K. Thorne

Noah's Wife

by T. K. Thorne - Historical Fiction

Noah's wife is Na'amah, a beautiful and brilliant girl who wishes only to be a shepherdess on her beloved hills in ancient Turkey-- a desire shattered by the hatred of her powerful brother, the love of two men, and a looming disaster that threatens the survival of her world.