Occupation Novelist Spouse Julian Cannell Language English Name Dorothy Cannell | Genre Mystery Role Writer | |
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Nationality United States / England People also search for Carolyn Hart, Nancy Atherton, Linda Ruud Awards Agatha Award for Best Short Story Books The Thin Woman, Murder at Mullings ‑ A 1930s, The Widows Club, Withering Heights, Sea Glass Summer | ||
Notable works Ellie Haskell series | ||
Dorothy Cannell is an English-American mystery writer.
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Biography
Dorothy Cannell was born in London, England. She moved to the United States in 1963 at the age of 20. She married Julian Cannell in 1964 and they lived in Peoria, Illinois for many years. They moved to Belfast, Maine. She is a mother of four and a grandmother of ten.
Awards
Cannell's 1988 novel The Widows Club was nominated for the "Best Novel" award at the 1989 Anthony Awards and the Agatha Awards in the same year. She was also nominated for a "Best Short Story" Agatha Award in 1991, for "The High Cost of Living"; 1992, for "The January Sales Stowaway"; and 1996, for "Cupid's Arrow".
In 2014 Cannell received the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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