#Women Authors Mysteries Series Set In#

It was no surprise, really, since the much-anticipated novel made the New York Times best-seller list during its first week on the shelves. Andrea Sisco Anne Frasier Monday, Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch. Help us keep this list up-to-date Please send additions, updates, or changes to webservanttwincitysinc.org. In the meantime, here’s a list of Minnesota mystery authors, with links to their websites where possible. We’re working on an interactive database of Twin Cities Sisters in Crime author members and their works.

Women Authors Mysteries Series Set In

Ann Parker is the author of the award-winning Silver Rush historical mystery series set in 1880s, featuring saloon owner Inez Stannert. From the sensationalist women mystery writers of the 19th century to the mid-1990s practitioners such as Margaret Maron, Karen Kijewski, and Sue Grafton, this work celebrates the contributions of women writers to mystery fiction, with an emphasis on. Spy Fiction: Where Are All The Women Authors The Women of Historical Crime Fiction.This comprehensive biocritical dictionary evaluates 117 widely read historical and contemporary women mystery writers and over 1,000 novels.

Oh, and she’s also a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant recipient.Catton was only 22 years old when she wrote her first novel, The Rehearsal (what have you done today?). Her latest novel, Americanah, was named one of the 10 best books of 2013 by the New York Times. Adichie, who is from Nigeria, is credited with heralding a new generation of African authors with her bestselling Half of a Yellow Sun. But here are some current female authors who you may have missed and want to add to your reading list.Beyoncé loves her and so should you. That task is only getting easier: 2014 will feature dozens of terrific books by women. So now that you’ve finished The Goldfinch — and her other two books, The Secret History and The Little Friend — what to read next to tide you over? At the beginning of 2014, writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh began the Twitter hashtag #readwomen2014 in an effort to encourage readers to pick up more books by women this year.

Critics raved about her first effort. Read her New York Times best-selling mystery about a missing wife, Gone Girl, before the David Fincher-directed movie adaptation hits the big screen in October starring Ben Affleck.Holt’s debut novel, You Are One of Them, is about two Cold War-era American schoolgirls who write to the premier of the Soviet Union, but only one of them gets a response and an invitation to visit Moscow. Gilbert will also appear on Oprah’s upcoming The Life You Want Weekend tour.Flynn began as an Entertainment Weekly reporter and TV critic before making the foray into mystery novels that continue to be page-turners after her signature big twist. But she’s also an accomplished novelist who published 2013’s well-reviewed The Signature of All Things, a charming bildungsroman about a spirited botanist who uses science to organize her heart and world.

Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike and the 1998 edition of The Best American Short Stories.When Munro was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was considered a win for the short story. 25, 2014 — received mixed reviews, her New York Times bestseller Birds of America (1998) was received with resounding praise. Though her most recent collection of short stories — Bark, published on Feb. The author previously won accolades for The Emperor’s Children, her best-selling novel about three college friends in pre-9/11 Manhattan.Lorrie Moore won Seventeen magazine’s fiction contest at the age of 19 and has been a wordsmith since. The 2013 book was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and a critical darling.In The Woman Upstairs, Messud flips the archetype of the friendly, unassuming spinster on its head, creating an angry woman who’s simply tired of being ignored. Kushner’s second novel, The Flamethrowers, focuses on a woman who arrives in New York from Reno in 1975 determined to turn her obsession with motorcycles and speed into art.

The best-selling novel made TIME’s 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list and had critics comparing her to Charles Dickens, John Irving and Salman Rushdie. She was only 22 years old. Her short story “The Sex Lives of African Girls” appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 2012 and her first novel, Ghana Must Go, was selected as one of the 10 best books of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal.Smith was lauded as the next big thing when her first book, White Teeth, debuted in 2000. Her newest novella, Sleep Donation, is now available as an e-book.This up-and-coming writer of Ghanian and Nigerian origin has been mentored by greats like Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie. Read her collection of stories Vampires in the Lemon Grove and you’ll see why. One of Munro’s stories in her collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, was made into a 2013 film, Hateship Loveship starring Kristen Wiig.At 32, Russell has already been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her debut novel, Swamplandia! in 2012) and been anointed an official “genius” by the MacArthur Foundation.