About

Judith W. Richards spent her career in the world of economics, finance, and real estate development. She is the author of Fundamentals of Development Finance: A Practitioner’s Guide (1983 by Praeger, later under Greenwood Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which for over twenty years was a highly respected handbook for financing risky projects in urban areas and was also used as a text book at prestigious universities.

Now, the author has turned her sights to fiction and her first love, history. Her debut novel, Amsterdam Ascendant: A novel of rebellion, faith, and daring enterprise that launch a Golden Age, will be published by Aries Books on November 30, 2023. It is available for pre-order as a book and e-book at bookstores and on Amazon.

Judy and her novelist husband, D. Manning Richards, live in the Washington DC area and periodically reside in Australia and France.

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