
Gary Wagner / Special to the Daily Journal
Longtime private neutral Claudia H. Long has written seven novels.
While the focus of each differs a fair bit - traversing themes of romanticism, poetry and the Inquisition in colonial Mexico to murder mysteries solved by a pair of Holocaust survivors - all of the books showcase the author's lifelong love for language.
"Words are currency," said Long, who is fluent in three langua... (continued)