Joan Conquest

Joan Conquest (1876–1941) was an English novelist of romantic adventure in exotic settings. She lived in Egypt and India, served as a nurse during the First World War and traveled widely in the East. Desert Love (1920), the story of an English heiress and an Arab chieftain, appeared a year after E. M. Hull's The Sheik and shared its enormous popularity, and she followed it with Leonie of the Jungle, The Hawk of Egypt (1922), Zarah the Cruel and many more in the same vein.