After Agatha: Women Write Crime
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By Cline, Sally
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After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. Hundreds of women who identified as lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, able-bodied, disabled, feminist, l...eft or right wing, who were black or white, who had experienced violence, sexism, homophobia or racism and who came from big cities or small country villages had one thing in common: they read crime novels. The book explores why so many women who face fear and violence in their daily lives, should be so addicted to crime fiction, many of which feature extreme violence. The book analyses why criminal justice professionals including police officers, forensic scientists, probation officers and lawyers have joined traditional detective writers in writing crime. It examines the explosions of crime writing by women between 1930 and today. It highlights the UK Golden Age women writers, the 1950s American women novelists, the 80s experimental trio, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sue Grafton, who created the first female American private Investigators and the important emergence of female police protagonists, as well as those central characters who for the first time were lesbian, disabled, black or ethnic minority. After Agatha also examines the significant explosions of domestic noir thrillers and forensic science writers. Most have taken to crime in order to reflect and comment on the social and political landscape around them. Many are creatively exploring the significant issues facing women today.
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| ISBN |
9780857302328 |
| Released NZ |
1 Apr 2022 |
| Publisher |
OLDCASTLE BOOKS LTD |
| Format |
Paperback |
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Indent title (internationally sourced), allow 8-12 weeks
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General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Women authors, Detective and mystery stories, English - Women authors - History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, American - Women authors - History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, Canadian - Women authors - History and criticism, Crime in literature |
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Literary Criticism |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Praise for Sally Cline's previous works: Wrapped up in a thorough biography, a strong case for why the unfortunate Zelda Fitzgerald should be remembered as an artist foremost, not merely as a victim of mental illness. (Kirkus Reviews) on Zelda Fitzgerald Cline imbues her scenes with revelatory detail. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) on Zelda Fitzgerald Sally Cline succeeds in breathing fresh life into this jazz-age icon in her meticulously documented and eminently readable biography. (The Washington Post Book World) on Zelda Fitzgerald Man of Mystery delivers the goods on Hammett. . . . An entertaining and informative read. --Library Journalon Dashiell Hammett In Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery, Cline brilliantly captures the life and times of this often private, enigmatic, and talented man. . . . Five out of five stars for her first-rate, well-researched, and compelling biography on Dashiell Hammett. It is a gem of a book, very entertaining, and it belongs in the library of all lovers of American literature. --Baltimore Post-Examineron Dashiell Hammett Apart from its valuable contribution to the study of lesbian literature per se, this biography dramatizes through Hall's life the complex and still often surprising sexual politics of the early century. --Kirkus Reviews on Radclyffe Hall |
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Author's Bio
Sally Cline is an award-winning biographer and fiction writer. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and former Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund as well as a Hawthornden Fellow. After Agatha: The Explosion in Women's Crime Writing is her fourteenth book. She has written ten non-fiction titles, one biographical novel Lily and Max (Golden Books) and one book of short stories, One of Us is Lying (Golden Books). Her biography Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John (John Murray, UK) is now a classic, and was shortlisted for the LAMBDA Prize. Her study Lifting the Taboo: Women, Death and Dying (Little, Brown, UK) won the Arts Council Prize for Non-Fiction. Her ground-breaking biography Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (John Murray, UK) and Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess (Arcade, NY, US) was a bestseller in both the UK and the US and preceded her landmark biography Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery(Arcade NY, US) She is the co-series Editor for Bloomsbury's nine-volume Writers' and Artists' Companions in Writing, for which she has co-authored two titles: Literary Non-Fiction (with Midge Gillies) and Life Writing: Writing Biography, Autobiography and Memoir (with Carole Angier). She was 2013 Judge for the HW Fisher Prize for First Published Biographies. She is Consulting Editor for the International Literary Quarterly and writes and records podcasts for the Royal Literary Fund. Her short stories for print and radio have won prizes from the BBC and Raconteur. She has also won a Hosking Houses Trust Fellowship for Women Writers over forty. Formerly Director of the Royal Literary Fund Mentoring Scheme, mentor for the Arts Council Escalator programme, judge and mentor for the prestigious Gold Dust Mentoring Scheme, she has also taught social science and politics at Cambridge University. She was on City University London's Creative Writing Programme, was Writer in Residence and mentor for the MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and has run Creative Writing Workshops for the Guardian Masterclasses at Stratford on Avon. She holds degrees and masters from Durham University (English and Philosophy) and Lancaster University (Sociology and Politics) and has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters in International Writing. She lives and writes in Cornwall and Cambridge.
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