Margaret Maron (1938–2021)
Autor/a de Bootlegger's Daughter
Sobre l'autor
Margaret Maron grew up in rural North Carolina. She attended college for two years before a summer job at the Pentagon led to marriage, a tour of duty in Italy, than several years in Brooklyn, New York before moving back to North Carolina. She is the author of the Sigrid Harald Mystery series, the mostra'n més Deborah Knott Mystery series, Bloody Kin, and Last Lessons of Summer. Bootlegger's Daughter won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Mystery in 1992. "Up Jumps the Devil" won the 1996 "Best Novel" Agatha award. "High Country Fall" was nominated for an Agatha Award in 2004 and also picked up a Macavity nomination the following year. "Three-Day Town" won the 2011 Agatha Award for "Best Novel". "Long Upon the Land" won the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel of 2015.Margaret is a founding member and past president of sisters in Crime and of the American Crime Writer's League; She is a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Courtesy Margaret Maron
Sèrie
Obres de Margaret Maron
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Editor — 49 exemplars
Lieutenant Harald and the Treasure Island Treasure / My Mother, My Daughter, and Me (1991) 6 exemplars
Lieutenant Harald and the Impossible Gun 3 exemplars
Thjree-Day Town 1 exemplars
Sense títol 1 exemplars
Send Me Word of All Our Neighbors... 1 exemplars
Deadly Allies - Hangnail 1 exemplars
Um filho no inverno (Seleções - Winter's child) 1 exemplars
Deadhead Coming Down 1 exemplars
Red-Headed Stepchild 1 exemplars
Lie Like a Rug [short story] 1 exemplars
Prayer for Judgment 1 exemplars
A Very Special Talent 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America (2015) — Col·laborador — 185 exemplars
Malice Domestic 2: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1993) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001) — Col·laborador — 69 exemplars
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Col·laborador — 67 exemplars
Women of Mystery II: Stories From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time (1995) — Col·laborador — 51 exemplars
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Deadly Allies: Private Eye Writers of America/Sisters in Crime Collaborative Anthology (1992) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition (1994) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Livros Condensados: Do Berço à Sepultura | Vila Mirabella | Filho do Inverno | O Poder da Ternura (2010) — Autor — 3 exemplars
The Spy Who Got His Feet Wet | Death in Blue Folders | Wedding Treasure (1985) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Brown, Margaret Elizabeth (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1938-08-28
- Data de defunció
- 2021-02-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA (birth)
- Lloc de naixement
- Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Causa de la mort
- stroke-related illness
- Llocs de residència
- Johnston County, North Carolina, USA
Italy
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Pleasant Grove Township, North Carolina, USA - Educació
- Cleveland High School
- Professions
- short-story writer
novelist
secretary - Organitzacions
- Mystery Writers of America
American Crime Writers League
Sisters in Crime - Premis i honors
- Mystery Writers of America Grand Master
- Biografia breu
- Margaret Maron (née Brown; August 25, 1938 – February 23, 2021) was an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.
Membres
Converses
R.I.P. Margaret Maron a Crime, Thriller & Mystery (març 2021)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 58
- També de
- 52
- Membres
- 11,461
- Popularitat
- #2,051
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 440
- ISBN
- 386
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 35
After that. Lost time is made up for and there is a respectable count by the end of the book. The slices of southern small town life are enjoyable, though the author’s fixation on what her protagonist and every other woman in the book weighs and how they look in their clothes is a bit off putting.plot nice and taut though, characters developed enough and everything falls into place easily .
Warning for those who find sexual violence and or child abuse upsetting…the contents are hard to take… (més)