Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman (* 1959 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American journalist and crime novel writer with journalist and private investigator Tess Monaghan as the main character.

Life

Laura Lippman was born in Atlanta in 1959, the daughter of a journalist and a librarian. The family moved to the Washington DC area in 1961 and on to Baltimore in 1965 . After leaving school, she studied journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism . From 1981 she worked as a journalist at the Tribune-Herald in Waco , Texas , and in 1983 moved to the San Antonio Light in San Antonio , Texas. She has been writing for the Baltimore Sun since 1989 , where her father was also employed until 1995. Her first novel, Baltimore Blues , was published in 1997. She is married to screenwriter and producer David Simon .

Awards

• 1998: Shamus Award - Best novel as original paperback for Charm City (German: Charm City , Hamburg: Rotbuch 2003)
• 1998: Edgar - Best novel as original paperback dto.
• 1999: Agatha Award - Best Novel for Butchers Hill (German Butchers Hill , Hamburg: Rotbuch 2005)
• 2000: Shamus Award - Best novel as an original paperback for In Big Trouble
• 2001: Nero Wolfe Award - Best Novel for Sugar House
• 2004: Anthony Award - Best Novel Every Secret Thing (German dangerous angels , Berlin: Rütten & Loening 2006)
• 2008: Barry Award - Best Novel dto.
• 2007: Anthony Award - Best Novel for No Good Deeds
• 2008: Barry Award - Best Novel for What the Dead Know (Eng. What the Dead Know, Munich: Goldmann 2009)
• 2008: Anthony Award - Best Novel dto.
• 2015: Anthony Award - Best Novel for After I'm Gone

Works

Tess Monaghan series

• 1997: Baltimore Blues
  • Baltimore Blues , German by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza; Hamburg: Rotbuch 2003. ISBN 3-434-53105-X
• 1997: Charm City
  • Charm City , German by Ulrich Hoffmann; Hamburg: Rotbuch 2003. ISBN 3-434-53117-3
• 1998: Butchers Hill
  • Butchers Hill , German by Ulrich Hoffmann; Hamburg: Rotbuch 2005. ISBN 3-434-53118-1
• 1999: In Big Trouble
• 2000: The Sugar House
• 2001: In a Strange City
  • In a strange city , German by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza; Hamburg: Rotbuch 2002. ISBN 3-434-53106-8
• 2002: The Last Place
• 2004: By a Spider's Thread
• 2006: No Good Deeds
• 2008: Another Thing to Fall
• 2011: The Girl in the Green Raincoat
  • The woman in the green raincoat ; German by Sepp Leeb; Kampa, Zurich 2020. ISBN 978-3-311-12514-3
• 2015: Hush, Hush

Single novels

• 2003: Every Secret Thing
  • Dangerous Angels , German by Ursula Walther; Berlin: Rütten & Loening 2006. ISBN 978-3-352-00738-5
• 2005: To the Power of Three
  • The third girl , German by Ursula Walther; Berlin: Rütten & Loening 2008. ISBN 978-3-352-00758-3
• 2007: What the Dead Know
  • What the dead know , German from Mo Zuber; Munich: Goldmann 2009. ISBN 978-3-442-46898-0
• 2009: Life Sentences
• 2010: I'd Know You Anywhere
  • Because mine is your soul , dt. By Eva Kemper; Munich: Goldmann 2009. ISBN 978-3-442-47694-7
• 2011: The Most Dangerous Thing
• 2012: And When She Was Good
• 2014: After I'm Gone
• 2016: Wild Lake
• 2018: Sunburn

Short story collection

• 2008 Hardly Knew Her

Web links

• Laura Lippman's website
• Literature by and about Laura Lippman in the catalog of the German National Library

Source references