CIJI WARE is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling novelist, an Emmy-award winning television producer, reporter, writer, lecturer, and host.
Her latest work, Book 4 in her American Spy Sisters series, THE SPY WORK LONG WHITE GLOVES, joins Book 1, LANDING BY MOONLIGHT, Book 2, A SPY ABOVE THE CLOUDS, and Book 3, THE SAFETY OF STRANGERS in this compelling quartet inspired by the exceptional American women who volunteered as secret agents during WW II. Recruited by British intelligence for reasons that were often surprising and occasionally unsettling, these “hidden heroines” parachuted or infiltrated behind enemy lines into occupied France to fight the Nazis, as well as fought the German spies infiltrating Britain while defusing incendiary devices that even the regular bomb squads declined to touch. Each of these “Yanks” found herself forced to reconcile a tangled web of duty, honor, country, loss, and enduring love while the fate of nations hung in the balance.
Ware has won numerous awards for both her historical and contemporary fiction, including the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence; the 'Golden Quill' award for Historical Fiction; 'Best Fictionalized Biography' for her 18th c. historical novel, ISLAND OF THE SWANS. For the latter work, she was bestowed in Edinburgh the honor of FSA Scot, of which she is exceedingly proud. Another historical novel, A RACE TO SPLENDOR, debuted in April, 2011 on the 105th anniversary of the devastating 1905 San Francisco Earthquake and Firestorm and was short-listed for the WILLA (Cather) Literary Award in 2012.
The author's historical fiction includes her bestselling ISLAND OF THE SWANS, and New York Times & USA Today’s bestselling MIDNIGHT ON JULIA STREET, among her 15 published novels. Exploring the linkages between Europe and America, Ware's burning question in all of her work is: "What were the women doing?" during various historical periods.
For eighteen years, Ware was heard daily as a commentator on KABC Radio & TV in Los Angeles. During her noted career as a broadcaster, she has worked as a reporter or anchor for PBS and all three major network affiliates, covering a wide range of topics in the areas of health, consumer, lifestyle and women's issues. As a reporter, and anchor at the PBS station in that city, she won a DuPont Award reporting on dangers in the lead industry and an Emmy as the producer of a harrowing program about divorcing parents kidnapping their own children.
Ciji Ware is also a sought-after event speaker and print journalist (AARP, Travel & Leisure and other national magazines). A graduate of Harvard with a degree in History, she has the distinction of being elected as the first woman graduate of Harvard College to serve as President of the Harvard Alumni Association, Worldwide.
The author is married to Internet marketing executive, Tony Cook. The "Cook-Wares" have a son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren. When not writing, she can be seen in local theatricals or taking a weekly Zoom Ballet Barre class through the San Francisco Ballet School. She also volunteers weekly as a chef for the local “Neighbors in Need” food program, and walks some 10 miles a week up and down the hills with ther Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Dash, with the Sausalito Dog Walkers.
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