Prehistory comes to astounding life in The Land of Painted Caves, the sixth and final chapter in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series which began with the iconic The Clan of the Cave Bear in 1980.

Thirty years ago, Jean M. Auel became a literary legend with The Clan Of The Cave Bear, the first book in her Earth’s Children series. Auel made prehistory come alive with the story of Ayla, an ...

Long before J.K. Rowling turned Harry Potter into a publishing phenomenon, another female author, Jean Auel, was launching her own bestselling series set in prehistory which concludes on Tuesday with ...

Sometimes it feels as though entire hominid species have evolved in less time than it takes to read “The Land of Painted Caves,” the sixth and final installment of Jean M. Auel’s best-selling ...

Oregon author Jean. M. Auel, shown in a 2010 photo, will see another adaptation of her bestselling novel, "The Clan of the Cave Bear," this one a television pilot for Lifetime. (The Oregonian ...