Occupation Novelist Spouse Bill Albert Nationality American Name Susan Albert | Genre Mystery Role Writer | |
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Born Vermilion County, Illinois Pen name Robin Paige, Carolyn Keene Education University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of California, Berkeley Nominations Agatha Award for Best First Novel Books A Wilder Rose, The Darling Dahlias a, The Darling Dahlias a, Death Come Quickly, Thyme of Death Similar People Rose Wilder Lane, Nancy Atherton, Carolyn Hart, Diane Mott Davidson, Janet Quin‑Harkin | ||
Notable works China Bayles Mysteries | ||
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Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene (), is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.
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Biography
Albert grew up in downstate Illinois, attending Danville High School before moving to the nearby community of Bismarck, where she graduated. She earned a degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She became a professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin and was a university administrator at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and vice president for academic affairs at Southwest Texas State University. She writes a column for Country Living Gardener magazine.
Her writing career has included the Nancy Drew mysteries under the pen name Carolyn Keene in the 1980s.
By the 1990s, Albert wrote Thyme of Death, her first China Bayles novel. The book was nominated for two national mystery awards, the 1992 Agatha and the 1993 Anthony in the "Best First Novel" category.
The titles of all the China Bayles novels include the names of herbs and include herbal themes that invoke the title. Albert is a guest speaker at both herbal clubs and women's groups around the country. She describes her books as "cozy mysteries" because they do not contain much violence or gratuitous behavior.
Albert and her husband, Bill, have also co-written The Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries, a series of a dozen mysteries set in the late Victorian era. Albert is also the author of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, a series of mysteries featuring author Beatrix Potter.