Margaret Maron (1938–2021)
Author of Bootlegger's Daughter
About the Author
Margaret Maron grew up in rural North Carolina. She attended college for two years before a summer job at the Pentagon led to marriage, a tour of duty in Italy, than several years in Brooklyn, New York before moving back to North Carolina. She is the author of the Sigrid Harald Mystery series, the show more Deborah Knott Mystery series, Bloody Kin, and Last Lessons of Summer. Bootlegger's Daughter won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Mystery in 1992. "Up Jumps the Devil" won the 1996 "Best Novel" Agatha award. "High Country Fall" was nominated for an Agatha Award in 2004 and also picked up a Macavity nomination the following year. "Three-Day Town" won the 2011 Agatha Award for "Best Novel". "Long Upon the Land" won the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel of 2015.Margaret is a founding member and past president of sisters in Crime and of the American Crime Writer's League; She is a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Courtesy Margaret Maron
Series
Works by Margaret Maron
Thjree-Day Town 1 copy
No title 1 copy
Deadly Allies - Hangnail 1 copy
Deadhead Coming Down 1 copy
Red-Headed Stepchild 1 copy
Lie Like a Rug [short story] 1 copy
Prayer for Judgment 1 copy
A Very Special Talent 1 copy
Associated Works
Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America (2015) — Contributor — 184 copies
Malice Domestic 2: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1993) — Contributor — 99 copies
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contributor — 66 copies
Women of Mystery II: Stories From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Contributor — 51 copies
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Contributor — 45 copies
Deadly Allies: Private Eye Writers of America/Sisters in Crime Collaborative Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 43 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition (1994) — Contributor — 10 copies
Livros Condensados: Do Berço à Sepultura | Vila Mirabella | Filho do Inverno | O Poder da Ternura (2010) — Author — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Brown, Margaret Elizabeth (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1938-08-28
- Date of death
- 2021-02-23
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Place of death
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Cause of death
- stroke-related illness
- Places of residence
- Johnston County, North Carolina, USA
Italy
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Pleasant Grove Township, North Carolina, USA - Education
- Cleveland High School
- Occupations
- short-story writer
novelist
secretary - Organizations
- Mystery Writers of America
American Crime Writers League
Sisters in Crime - Awards and honors
- Mystery Writers of America Grand Master
- Short biography
- Margaret Maron (née Brown; August 25, 1938 – February 23, 2021) was an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.
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R.I.P. Margaret Maron in Crime, Thriller & Mystery (March 2021)
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Statistics
- Works
- 58
- Also by
- 52
- Members
- 11,455
- Popularity
- #2,052
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 440
- ISBNs
- 386
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 35
After that. Lost time is made up for and there is a respectable count by the end of the book. The slices of southern small town life are enjoyable, though the author’s fixation on what her protagonist and every other woman in the book weighs and how they look in their clothes is a bit off putting.plot nice and taut though, characters developed enough and everything falls into place easily .
Warning for those who find sexual violence and or child abuse upsetting…the contents are hard to take… (more)