Emerson Littlefield:
A writer of mystery and literary fiction

Minos into his caverns to die, and together they escape the prison and begin life together.

Socrates’ Wife: The Life and Times of Xanthippe, History’s Most Famous Wife is a “memoir” by Socrates’ wife, Xanthippe, who tells the story of her own life — how she met and married Socrates, and what it was like to know many of Socrates’ famous pupils, like Plato, Xenophon, and Antisthenes.

Finally, My Life and Times: The True Story of Helen of Troy, in Her Own Words, is a novel in which Helen tells the story of her life — marrying Menelaus, falling in love with Paris, enduring the Trojan War, and returning to Sparta.

About

stories inspired by Florida and also By the ancient world.

I’m a retired English and philosophy teacher currently based in Calistoga, CA, who has turned to writing full-time. My Midge Sumpter mysteries are set in a fictional county in the northern Florida pine and palmetto forests called Wassahatchka. Midge is a young black deputy sheriff who solves crimes with insight and persistence. Together with her partner, Jake Leon, she tackles the most difficult cases in her small town.

My newer series is about figures from both the myths and the realities of the ancient world. The Cyclops: A Love Story is the personal account of Polyphemus, the cyclops of The Odyssey, who tells the story of his life in his own words. The Name of the Minotaur Asterion: An Ancient Romance is about Asterion (the Minotaur’s real name), condemned by his father, King Minos, to a life in the terrible labyrinth. He falls in love with one of the victims sent by