Tarr consulted the history books The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf and The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis, as part of her research for Alamut. This inspired her to write her novel set in the period of the Crusades, Alamut. In an interview, Tarr stated that she became interested in the period of the Crusades after hearing the 1971 record album, Music of the Crusades by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. The trilogy features historical personages such as Francis of Assisi and King Richard I as characters. The trilogy's main character is Alf, a young monk who is also an Elf. The trilogy focuses on a race of Elves with supernatural powers, secretly living in medieval society. Tarr's The Hound and the Falcon trilogy ( The Isle of Glass, 1985 The Golden Horn, 1985 The Hounds of God, 1986) is a fantasy trilogy set in twelfth and thirteenth century Europe. The romantic fantasies that she writes under the name Caitlin Brennan feature "dancing horses" modeled on those that she raises. She breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm, her home in Vail, Arizona. She taught Latin at Wesleyan University from 1990 to 1993. and PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University. in Classics from Cambridge University, and an M.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976, and has an M.A. (a waterworks manager and salesman of real estate), and Regina (a teacher). Tarr was born in Augusta, Maine on January 30, 1955. Judith Tarr (born January 30, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author.
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