Jean M. Redmann
Jean M. Redmann (born June 9, 1955 in Ocean Springs ) is an American writer .
Life
Jean M. Redmann was born on June 9, 1955 and grew up in Ocean Springs, a small town in the US state of Mississippi. When she was eighteen she went to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie to study dramaturgy. After completing her studies, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a stage lighting technician and in 1988 wrote her first detective novel "Death by the Riverside", which was published in German in 1994 under the title "Mississippi". The following year the author moved back south to New Orleans, where she wrote four more detective novels. She works as a consultant for the AIDS organization "NO / AIDS Task Force" and conducts workshops on safer sex for lesbians.
Her third book "The Intersection of Law and Desire" won the Lambda Literature Prize in 1995 in the "Lesbian detective novel" category.
Books
- 1990 Death By The Riverside (German title: Mississippi)
- 1992 Deaths of Jocasta (German title: Stirb, Jokaste!)
- 1995 The Intersection of Law and Desire (German title: Never Say Yes)
- 1999 Lost Daughters (German title: Orphan's Stone)
- 2009 Death of a Dying Man (not yet published in German)
- 2010 Water Mark (not yet published in German)
- 2012 Ill Will (not yet published in German)
- 2013 The Shoal of Time (not yet published in German)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean M. Redmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Redmann, Jean M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ocean Springs |