Agatha Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 32 (2019) Winner
Edith Maxwell
えでぃす・まくすうぇる
Edisu Makusuweru
Pen Names:
Maddie Day（Used for Country Store Mysteries and Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries series）,
Tace Baker（Used for Lauren Rousseau Mysteries series）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1952-11-02 （Pasadena, California）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Quaker
- Residence History
- Pasadena, California → Temple City, California → Brazil → Irvine, California → Bloomington, Indiana → Japan → Massachusetts → Mali → Burkina Faso → Amesbury, Massachusetts
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Mystery author
- Active Years
- 2012-
- Memberships
- Sisters in Crime (lifetime member, former President of New England chapter), Mystery Writers of America, Short Mystery Fiction Society, Historical Novel Society
- Nominations
- 2014 Agatha Award nomination for Best Short Story, “Just Desserts for Johnny”, 2015 Agatha Award nomination for Best Short Story, “A Questionable Death”, 2016 Agatha Award nomination for Best Historical Novel, Delivering the Truth, 2017 Agatha Award nomination for Best Historical Novel, Called to Justice, 2018 Agatha Award nomination for Best Historical Novel, Turning the Tide, 2016 Macavity Award (Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award) nomination, Delivering the Truth, 2019 Macavity Award (Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award) nomination, Charity's Burden, 2016 Agatha Award nomination for Best Short Story, “The Mayor and the Midwife”
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Irvine | — | Linguistics | BA | — | United States |
| Indiana University | — | Linguistics | PhD | — | United States |
University of California, Irvine
Linguistics
Degree:
BA
Year of Graduation:
1974
Country:
United States
Major in Linguistics
Indiana University
Linguistics
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
1981
Country:
United States
PhD in Linguistics
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Agatha Award | Charity's Burden | Best Historical Novel | Malice Domestic | Winner |
Agatha Award
2019
Work:
Charity's Burden
Category:
Best Historical Novel
Organization:
Malice Domestic
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
A Tine to Live, a Tine to Die
2013 Cozy mysteryFirst in Local Foods Mysteries series.
Local foodsMurder
Flipped for Murder
2015 Cozy mysteryFirst in Country Store Mysteries (as Maddie Day).
Country storeMurder
Delivering the Truth
2016 Historical mysteryFirst in Quaker Midwife Mysteries series.
Quaker midwife19th century America
Speaking of Murder
2012 MysteryFirst in Lauren Rousseau Mysteries (as Tace Baker).
MurderLinguistics
Bibliography
- A Tine to Live, a Tine to Die
- ‘Til Dirt Do Us Part
- Farmed and Dangerous
- Murder Most Fowl
- Mulch Ado About Murder
- Flipped for Murder (Maddie Day)
- Grilled for Murder (Maddie Day)
- When the Grits Hit the Fan (Maddie Day)
- Biscuits and Slashed Browns (Maddie Day)
- Death Over Easy (Maddie Day)
- Strangled Eggs and Ham (Maddie Day)
- Christmas Cocoa Murder (Maddie Day)
- Nacho Average Murder (Maddie Day)
- Candy Slain Murder (Maddie Day)
- Murder on Cape Cod (Maddie Day)
- Murder at the Taffy Shop (Maddie Day)
- Murder at the Lobstah Shack (Maddie Day)
- Murder in a Cape Cottage (Maddie Day)
- Murder at the Cape Bookstore (Maddie Day)
- Murder at the Rusty Anchor (Maddie Day)
- Murder at Cape Costumes (Maddie Day)
- Delivering the Truth
- Called to Justice
- Turning the Tide
- Charity’s Burden
- Judge Thee Not
- Taken Too Soon
- Speaking of Murder (Tace Baker)
- Bluffing is Murder (Tace Baker)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Cozy mysteriesTraditional mysteriesHistorical mysteriesMysteries set in the United States
- Recurring Motifs
- Food and cookingLocal foodsQuaker cultureMidwiferyCountry life
Legacy
Agatha Award-winning author of cozy, traditional, and historical mysteries set in the US, including series like Local Foods Mysteries and Quaker Midwife Mysteries. Also writes as Maddie Day and Tace Baker.
Quotes
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I don’t want to read noir or nail-biter thrillers. Our world is scary and messy enough. When I’m finished reading a book, I don’t want to feel worse about society. That’s what I write, too.
Source: The Enterprise interview (2020)
Trivia
- Won a children's fiction contest in Pasadena Star-News in 1961.
- Spent a year in Brazil as an AFS exchange student in 1970.
- Diverse career including auto mechanic, ESL teacher in Japan, organic farmer, and software documenter.
- Quaker.