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The Kratz Center for Creative Writing is very pleased to welcome the spring 2007 writer-in-residence...Laura Lippman. One of our most innovative contemporary writers, an author whose work spans both literary and detective fiction, Laura Lippman is the award-winning author of twelve novels, including WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, which arrives in bookstores on March 2007. In addition to teaching an upper level fiction workshop, Laura Lippman will give a reading on Wednesday April 18, 2007 At 7:00 PM In the Chapel at Goucher College This event is free and open to the public. ...more about Ms. Lippman: A true Baltimore city literary treasure, Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The Baltimore Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. Ms. Lippman grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade. After graduating from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Md., Ms. Lippman attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her other newspaper jobs included the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San Antonio Light. Ms. Lippman returned to Baltimore in 1989 and has lived there since. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a Sun editorial writer who retired in 1995 but continues to freelance for several newspapers, and Madeline Mabry Lippman, a former Baltimore City school librarian. Her sister, Susan, is a local bookseller. In addition to the forthcoming novel WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, Ms. Lippman is the author of such works as CHARM CITY, winner of the 1998 Edgar® & Shamus award, BUTCHERS HILL, winner of the Agatha Award for best novel, THE SUGAR HOUSE, winner of the 2000 Nero Wolfe Award and IN A STRANGE CITY, a 2001 New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of the 2005 novel TO THE POWER OF THREE and BY A SPIDER'S THREAD and NO GOOD DEEDS, two of the latest novels to feature the much loved detective Tess Monaghan. Visit Laura Lippman's website at
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WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, a new novel by Laura Lippman graces bookshelves in March 2007.
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