PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 4 (1994) Winner
Paula L. Woods
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Aliases:
Paula Woods
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1953-01-01 （Los Angeles）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Los Angeles
Career
- Occupations
- crime novelist, literary critic
- Active Years
- 1992-2006
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Macavity Award | Inner City Blues | best first mystery | Mystery Readers International | winner |
Macavity Award
1999
Work:
Inner City Blues
Category:
best first mystery
Organization:
Mystery Readers International
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Inner City Blues
1999 Crime fictionA crime novel featuring L.A. policewoman Charlotte Justice.
racial issuesurban crime
Stormy Weather
2001 Crime fictionDirty Laundry
2003 Crime fictionStrange Bedfellows
2006 Crime fictionBibliography
- Inner City Blues
- Stormy Weather
- Dirty Laundry
- Strange Bedfellows
- Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century
- Merry Christmas, Baby: A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury
- I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love
- I, Too, Sing America: The African American Book of Days
Legacy
Known as an African-American crime novelist who won the Macavity Award for her Charlotte Justice series.
Trivia
- African-American.
- Born in Los Angeles.