Wendy Webb (1)
Author of The Tale of Halcyon Crane
For other authors named Wendy Webb, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
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Works by Wendy Webb
Sleeping Cities 1 copy
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- Other names
- Webb, Wendy K.
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
- Places of residence
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Duluth, Minnesota, USA - Education
- University of Minnesota
- Occupations
- congressional aide
journalist
novelist - Organizations
- City Pages [Minneapolis, MN]
Duluth Superior Magazine (editor-in-chief) - Awards and honors
- Minnesota Book Award (2011)
Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Horror (nominated) - Agent
- Jennifer Weltz (Jean Naggar Literary)
- Short biography
- Wendy K. Webb is an American fiction author. Her books have received several awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011 and 2017.
Webb was born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. When Webb was in grade school, the school librarian encouraged her to read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. After reading that book, she knew from that point on that she was destined to be an author.
She attended the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a major in political science and minors in French and history. Immediately after graduation, she lived in France with two of her friends. Upon returning to the United States, she got an internship in Washington, D.C. with a congressman, and later with a Minnesota senator.
After returning to Minnesota, Webb got her first writing job with a Minneapolis-based weekly arts and entertainment newsletter, City Pages. Webb has also written for as the Huffington Post and USA Today. She was the editor-in-chief of a lifestyle monthly, Duluth Superior Magazine, until the publication closed in 2014.
Webb's first novel, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, is a modern ghost story that won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011. Her second novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, depicts the uncovering of a hidden family scandal. The book was on the Indie Bestseller List for six weeks. The End of Temperance Dare, won the Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction in 2017. Her most recent novel, Daughters of the Lake, hit Number One on the Amazon bestseller list and was published in 2018.
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- Works
- 10
- Members
- 2,256
- Popularity
- #11,367
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 185
- ISBNs
- 66
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
- 5
I really loved this book. It was wonderful to flip back and forth through time as the story weaved an intricate tale of love, mystery, folk lore and so much more. It really kept my interest and I just wanted more. The characters are well formed and so real!