Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Cain (born February 5, 1972 in Iowa City ) is an American writer and journalist .
Life
Chelsea Cain grew up with her parents on a farm outside of Iowa City in a hippie - municipality on, moved at the age of 6 years with her mother to Bellingham (Washington) , where he attended school. After graduating from high school , she studied political science at the University of California, Irvine , and then journalism at the University of Iowa . Her master's thesis on the American hippie movement and her childhood in a hippie commune was published in 1996 under the title Dharma Girl: A road trip across the american generations . She wrote for numerous newspapers and, before devoting herself exclusively to her writing, worked as a columnist for the daily newspaper The Oregonian .
During her pregnancy in 2004 she wrote her first detective novel about the police officer Archie Sheridan and the intelligent and attractive serial killer Gretchen Lowell, which was published under the title Heartsick and published in German translation in 2008 under the title Furie . Since then, Chelsea Cain has been one of the most famous international thriller authors. In the meantime another five novels from the series about Sheridan and Lowell as well as the first volume of their new series about Kick Lannigan have been published.
From March 2016, Cain wrote the superhero series Mockingbird for the publisher Marvel Comics , which was discontinued with the eighth edition despite good reviews. In 2017, Cain and the illustrator Kate Niemczyk were nominated for the Eisner Award in the Best New Series category.
Chelsea Cain lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter .
Works
Gretchen Lowell / Archie Sheridan series
- 2007 Heartsick
- Furie (German translation by Fred Kinzel), Blanvalet , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-37004-7 .
- 2008 sweetheart
- Grazie (German translation by Fred Kinzel), Blanvalet, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-37224-9 .
- 2009 Evil at Heart
- Gretchen (German translation by Fred Kinzel), Blanvalet, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-37225-6 .
- 2011 The night season
- Totenfluss (German translation by Fred Kinzel), Blanvalet, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-37857-9 .
- 2012 Kill you twice
- Sterbensschön (German translation by Fred Kinzel), Blanvalet, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-38151-7 .
- 2013 Let me go
- The offering of the dead (German translation by Fred Kinzel), Blanvalet, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-38386-3 .
Kick Lannigan range
- 2015 One Kick
- K - Kidnapped (German translation by Lilith Winter), Blanvalet, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7341-0041-3 .
Other books
- 1996 Dharma Girl. A road trip across the American generations .
- 1999 Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture (as editor)
- 2004 The Hippie Handbook. How to tie-dye a t-shirt, flash a peace sign, and other essential skills for the care free .
- 2004 Confessions of a teen sleuth. A parody .
- 2006 Does this cape make me look fat? Pop Psychology for Super Heroes .
Web links
- Literature by and about Chelsea Cain in the catalog of the German National Library
- Chelsea Cains Official Website
- official German website of the author
- Page of the author at Krimi-Couch.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Twice As Smart: Cain and Niemczyk Talk 'Mockingbird'. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Marvel's MOCKINGBIRD is canceled with Issue 8's Release Today. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Comic-Con International Announces 2017 Eisner Award Nominees. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cain, Chelsea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iowa City |