Megan Abbott

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Occupation Author Language English Genre crime fiction		Nationality American Name Megan Abbott Citizenship United States Role Author

Born 1971 Detroit, United States Spouse Joshua Gaylord (m. 1998–2011) Education New York University, University of Michigan Awards Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, Barry Award for Best Paperback Original Nominations Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Books Dare Me, The Fever, Queenpin, Bury Me Deep, Die a Little Similar People Laura Lippman, Sara Gran, Jean Spangler, Tana French, Christa Faust Profiles Twitter
Alma mater University of Michigan

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Megan Abbott (born 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, with a female twist.

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Biography

Abbott grew up in suburban Detroit and graduated from the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University, and has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-2014, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

Influences

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Abbott was influenced by film noir, classic noir fiction, and Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Virgin Suicides. Two of her novels reference notorious crimes. The Song Is You (2007) is based around the disappearance of Jean Spangler in 1949, and Bury Me Deep (2009) on the 1931 case of Winnie Ruth Judd, dubbed "the Trunk Murderess".

Reception and awards

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Abbott has won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for outstanding fiction. Time named her one of the "23 Authors That We Admire" in 2011. Publishers Weekly gave her 2011 novel The End of Everything a starred review.

Novels

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Die a Little (2005). ISBN 978-0743261708

The Song Is You (2007). ISBN 978-0743291712

Queenpin (2007). ISBN 978-1416534280
Won: 2008 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, 2008 Barry Award for Best Paperback Novel
Nominated: 2008 Anthony award for Best Paperback Original.

Bury Me Deep (2009). ISBN 978-1416599098
Nominated: 2010 Anthony award for Best Paperback Original

The End of Everything (2011). ISBN 978-0316097796

Dare Me (2012). ISBN 978-0316097772

The Fever (2014). ISBN 978-0316231053

You Will Know Me (2016)

Give Me Your Hand (2018). ISBN 978-1509855681

Short stories

"My Heart Is Either Broken" (2013). Appeared in Dangerous Women.

Non-fiction

The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled fiction and Film Noir (2002). ISBN 0-312-29481-6

Editor

A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (2007). ISBN 978-0979270994

Journalist and blogger

Abbott has written for major journals and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. She also writes a blog with novelist Sara Gran.

References

Megan Abbott Wikipedia

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