Name Mary Walker Role Author | ||
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Awards Edgar Award for Best Novel, Hammett Prize Nominations Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, Barry Award for Best Novel Books Under the Beetle's Cellar, The Red Scream, All the Dead Lie Down, Zero at the Bone, Chasing Lewis & Clark Acr | ||
Mary Willis Walker (born May 24, 1942, Fox Point, Wisconsin) is an American crime fiction author.
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Life
Walker graduated from Duke University in English and took up high school teaching. She married in 1967 to Lee Walker who became president of Dell Computers, living in New York and Virginia before moving to Austin, Texas. They have two daughters, Amanda and Susannah but are now divorced. She continues to live in Austin.
Writing
She began writing in her mid-forties, which she characterized as " 'pretty late to start' ". She spent two years writing her first published thriller, Zero at the Bone, which was published in 1991. Her second Texas-based mystery, Red Scream, was Walker's first to feature sleuth Molly Cates. Red Scream won the Best Mystery Edgar Award in 1993. Under the Beetle's Cellar, published in 1995, was Walker's third mystery.