At that time, I just had to write that story. I worked on it from the time I got up to the time I went to bed, every single day. On the first one, I was really spending all my time on that book, 24/7, as they say now. "All the books have been difficult to write. 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. "I was raising a family, having grandchildren. Auel needed eight years for "The Land of Painted Caves." The fifth, "The Shelters of Stone," took more than a decade. The fourth book, "The Plains of Passage," took five years to write. The first three novels of the series were completed by the mid-1980s, but then Auel slowed down. It's what I do."įascinated by life thousands of years ago, to the point where she learned how to make an ice cave and tan leather, Auel started the series in her early 40s and debuted in 1980 with "The Clan of the Cave Bear," which later became a film of the same name starring Daryl Hannah as Ayla, the orphaned Cro-Magnon raised by Neanderthals. "I still have some material and I'm going to keep on writing. "To be honest, I don't feel like I'm through," the author, 74, said during a recent interview.
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