Linda Grant (writer, 1942)

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Linda Grant , pseudonym of Linda VerLee Williams , (born May 28, 1942 ) is an American writer and educator.

Life

Linda VerLee Williams studied English at the University of California at Berkeley . She then joined the Peace Corps (Peace Corps) in, traveled to Ethiopia and taught from 1966 to 1968 on behalf of the Ministry of Education in schools at all educational levels. After returning to California , she taught as a lecturer (instructor) at the University Extension, University of California and worked as a staff member at The Learning Circle in Berkeley. In 1983 she wrote a non-fiction book on learning methods and in 1986 a guide to using the EasyWriter program .

Under the pseudonym "Linda Grant" she made her debut in 1988 with the first crime novel Random Access Murder in the six-volume series Catherine Sayler Mystery . Some of the volumes have been translated into German and French. Linda Grant wrote several comic books in the Star Wars series . She is a long-time member of the Sisters in Crime network and has published short stories in Sisters in Crime Volumes 3 and 4 and other anthologies .

Books

Non-fiction

  • as Linda V. Williams: Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind. A Guide to Right Brain / Left Brain Education . Prentice Hall , New York 1983
  • as Linda V. Williams: Using Easy Writer II System. Self-teaching guides . Simon & Schuster , New York 1986
  • as Linda Grant: Well said. Advanced English pronunciation . Heinle & Heinle, Boston 1993

Detective novels

  • Random Access Murder. Catherine Sayler Mystery. Volume 1. Avon, New York 1988
  • Blind trust. Catherine Sayler Mystery . Volume 2. Scribner, New York 1990
    • German translation by Gloria Ernst: Betriebsblind. A Catherine Sayler detective novel . Piper, Zurich 1993, ISBN 978-3-492-15597-7 .
  • Love Nor Money. Catherine Sayler Mystery . Volume 3. Scribner, New York 1992
    • German translation by Gloria Ernst: The Pied Piper of San Francisco . Piper, Zurich 1994, ISBN 978-3-492-15620-2 .
  • A woman's place. Catherine Sayler Mystery . Volume 4. Scribner, New York 1994
  • Lethal Genes. Catherine Sayler Mystery . Volume 5. Scribner, New York 1996
  • Vampire bytes. Catherine Sayler Mystery . Volume 6. Scribner, New York 1998
  • as editor: Shameless promotion for brazen hussies . Sisters in Crime, Blacksburg, Virginia , 1995

Short stories in anthologies

  • Lady luck . In: Marilyn Wallace (ed.): Sisters in Crime . Volume 3. Berkley 1990
  • Last rites . In: Marilyn Wallace (ed.): Sisters in Crime . Volume 4. Berkley 1991
  • No Better Than Her Father . In: Tony Hillerman (Ed.): The Mysterious West . HarperCollins 1994
  • Ashes to Ashes . In: Carolyn G. Hart (Ed.): Malice Domestic . Volume 4. Pocket 1995
  • Hamlet's dilemma . In: Sara Paretsky (Ed.): Women on the Case . Delacorte 1996
  • The Mother of Our Country . In: Nancy Pickard (Ed.): The First Lady Murders . Pocket 1999
  • The second-oldest profession . In: Nancy Pickard (Ed.): Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder . Berkley 1999
  • Never Too Old . In: Sara Paretsky (Ed.): Sisters on the Case. Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime . Signet 2007

comics

  • Issue 83: Sweetheart Contract . Marvel Comics 1984
  • Issue 7: The fight for freedom on Drogheda . Ehapa-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985
  • Book 6: A Long Time Ago… Dark Horse Comics 1999
  • Book 6: A Long Time Ago…. Wookiee World . Dark Horse Comics 2003
  • Book 11: The Return . Panini 2013
  • Book 3: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus . (Tom Palmer Cover ), Marvel Comics 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linda Grant - Author. GoodReads, accessed October 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Linda Grant. VJ Books, 2016, accessed October 14, 2016 .
  3. ^ Catherine Sayler created by Linda Grant. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Linda VerLee (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1942