MK Wren

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Martha Kay Renfroe (born June 5, 1938 in Amarillo , Texas ; died August 20, 2016 in Lincoln City , Oregon ) was an American writer who wrote under the pseudonym MK Wren . She published detective and science fiction novels.

Life

Renfroe studied arts and creative writing at the University of Oklahoma and eventually settled in Oregon, which she described as a new birth.

In 1973 she published her first novel, a detective story with Conan Joseph Flagg, bookseller and gentleman detective. A total of eight novels appeared in this series. The Phoenix Legacy , a science fiction novel of 500,000 words, was published in 1981, divided into three volumes. It is a 33rd century space opera . Another SF novel is A Gift Upon the Shore (1990), a post-apocalyptic novel in which two women, an artist and a writer, fight to preserve knowledge in the devastated world after World War III.

In 1996 she received the Northwest Writer Award .

Renfroe lived with artist Ruth Dennis Grover in an old house in Roads End on the Oregon Coast. In addition to her literary work, she has taught at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany , Oregon, and at Portland State University . In recent years she has devoted herself to caring for her friend Ruth, who is over 90 years old.

In 2016 she died at the age of 78.

bibliography

Conan Flagg (crime novels)
  • Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat (1973)
    • English: Curiosity doesn't kill the cat. Translated by Mechtild Sandberg. Goldmann Rote Krimis # 4679, 1977, ISBN 3-442-04679-3 .
  • A Multitude of Sins (1975)
    • German: It stays in the family. Translated by Renate Meyer. Goldmann Rote Krimis # 4714, 1978, ISBN 3-442-04714-5 .
  • Oh Bury Me Not (1976)
    • German: Me, the next victim. Translated by Christine Frauendorf. Goldmann Thriller # 4699, 1978, ISBN 3-442-04699-8 .
  • Nothing's Certain But Death (1978)
    • German: Only death is certain. Translated by Mechtild Sandberg. Goldmann Rote Krimis # 4839, 1979, ISBN 3-442-04839-7 .
  • Seasons of Death (1981)
  • Wake Up, Darlin 'Corey (1984)
  • Dead Matter (1993)
  • King of the Mountain (1994)
The Phoenix Legacy (Science Fiction Trilogy)
  • Sword of the Lamb (1981)
  • Shadow of the Swan (1981)
  • House of the Wolf (1981)
Novels
  • The Medusa Pool (1999)
    • German: Medusa Pool. Translated by Annette Blum. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-293-20211-X .
  • A Gift Upon the Shore (1990)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b M. K. Wren / Biography ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. MK Wren , author page of the Unionsverlag, accessed on November 12, 2018.