Aaron Elkins

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Aaron Elkins (2010)

Aaron Elkins (born July 24, 1935 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American detective writer . He became known and translated into more than 12 languages ​​worldwide with his series about the forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver .

Life

Elkins' father was a machinist, his mother a housewife. Aaron Elkins graduated from Hunter College in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts , further studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , received a Master of Arts from the University of Arizona in 1960 and from California State University in Los Angeles in 1962 . In 1976 he received his PhD in Education (Doctor of Education) from the University of California at Berkeley . Elkins then had a multi-year career as a government employee, consultant, teacher and lecturer at Golden Gate University in San Francisco in the fields of economics , psychology and anthropology.

Elkin's books were the template for a major television series for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). If Elkins is not writing, it acts as a forensic anthropologist for the Cold Case Task Force of the Olympic Peninsula . Elkins married his wife Charlotte Elkins in 1972; they live in Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington , and have two children.

Works

Gideon Oliver series

  • 1982: Fellowship of Fear
  • 1983: The Dark Place
  • 1985: Murder in the Queen's Armes
  • 1987: Old Bones (German old bones . Haffmans, Zurich 1992, ISBN 978-3-251-01143-8 )
  • 1989: Curses! (German curse! Haffman's crime novels by Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-251-30004-4 )
  • 1990: Icy Clutches
  • 1991: Make No Bones
  • 1994: Dead Men's Hearts (German: Dead Hearts . Haffman's crime novels by Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-453-08993-8 )
  • 1997: Twenty Blue Devils
  • 2000: Skeleton Dance (German Yahi . Haffmans, Zurich 2000, ISBN 978-3-251-30122-5 )
  • 2004: Good Blood
  • 2005: Where There's a Will
  • 2006: Unnatural Selection
  • 2007: Little Tiny Teeth
  • 2008: Uneasy Relations
  • 2009: Skull Duggery
  • 2012: Dying on the Vine
  • 2016: Switcheroo

Chris Norgren series

  • 1987: A Deceptive Clarity
  • 1991: A Glancing Light
  • 1993: Old Scores (German old masters . Haffmans Kriminalromane bei Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-453-11844-7 )

Lee Ofsted series

(in cooperation with Charlotte Elkins)

  • 1989: A Wicked Slice
  • 1995: Rotten Lies
  • 1997: Nasty Breaks
  • 2004: Where Have all the Birdies Gone?
  • 2005: On the Fringe

Alix London series

(in cooperation with Charlotte Elkins)

  • 2012: A Dangerous Talent (German. Dangerous Talent . AmazonCrossing, Luxembourg 2013, ISBN 978-1-61109-828-0 )
  • 2013: A Cruise to Die For (Eng. A murderous cruise . AmazonCrossing, Luxembourg 2014, ISBN 978-1-4778-2176-3 )
  • 2014: The Art Whisperer
  • 2016: The Trouble with Mirrors

Other individual works

  • 1999: Loot
  • 2002: Turncoat
  • 2011: The Worst Thing
  • 2018: A Long Time Coming

Awards

Web links

Evidence, comments

  1. ↑ see Profile of Aaron Elkins (accessed February 24, 2020)
  2. ↑ see Diane Urban de la Paz, Peninsula Daily News: Looking out at the water, my mind floats freer: How author Aaron Elkins is inspired to write best-sellers (accessed February 24, 2020)
  3. ↑ Brief report from Aaron M. Priest, Literaturagentur (English, accessed on February 25, 2020)
  4. ↑ see part-time work at the Peninsula Cold Case Task Force (accessed on February 25, 2020)
  5. ↑ Elkins lives in Sequim (accessed February 25, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Elkins, Aaron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elkins, Aaron J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American detective writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City