Donna Andrews | |
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Born | Yorktown, Virginia, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | University of Virginia |
Genre | Mystery |
Notable works | The Meg Langslow and Turing Hopper series |
Website | |
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Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. [1] Her first book, Murder with Peacocks (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards for best first novel, and the Lefty award for funniest mystery of 1999. [2] The first novel in the Turing Hopper series (You've Got Murder, 2002) debuted a highly unusual sleuth—an Artificial Intelligence (AI) personality who becomes sentient—and won the Agatha Award for best mystery that year.
Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series), studied English and drama at the University of Virginia, [3] and now lives and works in Reston, Virginia. [2]
Donna Andrews has won many industry awards for her fiction. [4] As of 2009 she has earned 3 Agatha Awards, [5] 1 Anthony Award, 1 Barry Award, 2 Lefty Awards, 2 Toby Bromberg Awards and 1 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award. Andrews has also been nominated for 3 Dilys Awards.
'Murder with Peacocks'
'Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos'
'You've Got Murder'
'Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon'
'We'll Always Have Parrots'
'Owl's Well That Ends Well'
'No Nest for the Wicket'
'The Penguin Who Knew Too Much'
"A Rat's Tale", Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine – Sept/Oct. 2007
'Six Geese A-Slaying'
'Swan For the Money'
'Stork Raving Mad'
'The Real Macaw'
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