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Margaret Maron

マーガレット・マロン

Māgaretto Maron

Aliases: Margaret Brown

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1938-08-25 （Greensboro, North Carolina）
Died
2021-02-23 （Raleigh, North Carolina） age 82
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Greensboro, North Carolina → Johnston County, North Carolina → Italy → Brooklyn, New York → North Carolina

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1981-2021
Memberships
Sisters in Crime (founding member, past president), American Crime Writers' League, Mystery Writers of America (director)
Nominations
Corpus Christmas (1989 Agatha, 1990 Anthony), Deborah's Judgment (1991 Agatha, 1992 Anthony, Macavity), ...That Married Dear Old Dad (1993 Agatha), Southern Discomfort (1993 Agatha, 1994 Anthony), Home Fires (1998 Agatha, 1999 Macavity), Storm Track (2000 Agatha), Virgo in Sapphires (2001 Agatha, 2002 Edgar, Anthony), Last Lessons of Summer (2003 Agatha), High Country Fall (2004 Agatha, 2005 Macavity), Rituals of the Season (2005 Agatha), Hard Row (2007 Agatha)

Education

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Period: 2年間在籍
Country: United States
Attended for two years. Received honorary doctorate and gave commencement address in 2010

Awards

Agatha Award
1992
Work: Bootlegger's Daughter
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Malice Domestic
Result: Winner
Anthony Award
1993
Work: Bootlegger's Daughter
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Bouchercon
Result: Winner
Edgar Award
1993
Work: Bootlegger's Daughter
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Mystery Writers of America
Result: Winner
Macavity Award
1993
Work: Bootlegger's Daughter
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Mystery Readers International
Result: Winner
Agatha Award
1996
Work: Up Jumps The Devil
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Malice Domestic
Result: Winner
Agatha Award
2002
Work: The Dog That Didn't Bark
Category: Best Short Story
Organization: Malice Domestic
Result: Winner
Agatha Award
2011
Work: Three-Day Town
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Malice Domestic
Result: Winner
Order of the Long Leaf Pine
2006
Organization: Governor of North Carolina
Result: Recipient
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
2016
Result: Inducted

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Bootlegger's Daughter

1992 Mystery

First in the Judge Deborah Knott series, featuring a North Carolina judge daughter of a bootlegger.

Southern cultureCrimeFamily

Three-Day Town

2011 Mystery

Crossover between Deborah Knott and Sigrid Harald series. Agatha Award winner.

MurderTravelFriendship

One Coffee With

1981 Mystery

First in the Sigrid Harald series, featuring a loner NYPD lieutenant.

PoliceLossLoner

Bibliography

  • Bootlegger's Daughter (1992)
  • Southern Discomfort (1993)
  • Shooting at Loons (1994)
  • Up Jumps the Devil (1996)
  • Killer Market (1997)
  • Home Fires (1998)
  • Storm Track (2000)
  • Uncommon Clay (2001)
  • Slow Dollar (2002)
  • High Country Fall (2004)
  • Rituals of the Season (2005)
  • Winter's Child (2006)
  • Hard Row (2007)
  • Death’s Half-Acre (2008)
  • Sand Sharks (2009)
  • Christmas Mourning (2010)
  • Three-Day Town (2011)
  • The Buzzard Table (2012)
  • Designated Daughters (2014)
  • Long Upon the Land (2015)

Translations of Works

  • Translated into a dozen languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Southern literature elementsTraditional mystery
Recurring Motifs
North Carolina localesFamily secretsJustice

Health

  • Stroke
    晩年
    Died of complications

Legacy

Award-winning mystery novelist known for Deborah Knott and Sigrid Harald series, featured in Southern literature and crime fiction courses.

Trivia

  • Married to artist Joe Maron (1959)
  • One child
  • Lived in Italy