Program Highlight:
Bold Strokes
Three top authors from lesbian fiction publisher Bold Strokes Books will read from and discuss their... Read more
Megan Abbott
Festival Appearance(s):
- Mysteries: Meredith Cole and Megan Abbott, Sunday, 12:00
Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, The Song Is You and the 2008 Edgar winner, Queenpin. Her new novel, released in July 2009, is Bury Me Deep.
Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English Literature and went on to receive her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She lives in Queens, New York City with her husband, Joshua Gaylord, whose novel Hummingbirds will be published by Harper Collins in Fall 2009.
Abbott's stories have appeared in Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir (2006), Wall Street Noir (2007), Detroit Noir (2007), Storyglossia and Queens Noir (2007). Her nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, was published in 2003. She is also the editor of the Edgar-nominated A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, featuring original tales by 25 mystery and crime authors.
Abbott won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2008 for Queenpin. She was also nominated for an Edgar in 2006 for Best First Novel. In 2008, she won the Barry Award (Deadly Pleasures and Mystery News award) and has been nominated three times for the Anthony Award (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention award).
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