Jennifer McMahon

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Jennifer McMahon (born June 5, 1968 in Hartford , Connecticut ) is an American thriller author. For her work The One I Left Behind (German title The 5th victim ) she received the 2014 International Thriller Award in the category “Best Novel as Original Paperback”.

life and work

McMahon grew up in rural Connecticut and later moved to Vermont . She graduated from Goddard College and then studied poetry for a year at Vermont College . She has been working full-time as a freelance writer since 2000.

Her debut novel Promise not to tell (Harper Paperbacks) was published in 2007 under the German title Das Mädchen im Wald by Rowohlt Verlag . The successor novel Iceland of Lost Girls made it in 2012 on the bestseller list of The New York Times and published under the title The Island of Lost Children also the Rowohlt Verlag.

Her lesbian youth novel, My Tiki Girl , published in 2008, was included in the 2009 American Library Association's Rainbow List of authentic and meaningful LGBT books.

McMahon lives with her partner Drea and their daughter in Montpelier (Vermont) .

Awards

Works

  • The girl in the forest , Rowohlt, Hamburg / Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3499244803 (American English: Promise not to tell , 2007)
  • The island of lost children , Rowohlt, Hamburg / Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-24850-4 (American English: Island of lost girls , 2008 )
  • The dark voice of guilt , Rowohlt, Hamburg / Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3499253164 (American English: Dismantled , 2009)
  • The 5th victim , Weltbild, Augsburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-863-65843-4 (American English: The One I left behind, 2013)
  • Winterpeople - Who wakes the dead , Ullstein, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3548287324 (American English: The Winterpeople, 2014)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography. In: Jennifer McMahon's website. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ E-Book Fiction, Best Sellers . In: The New York Times . January 22, 2012, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 17, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Tony Valenzuela: 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. May 10, 2010, accessed October 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ International Thriller Award 2014. In: Literature Prize Winner. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME McMahon, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford , Connecticut