Raelynn Hillhouse

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Raelynn Hillhouse
Raelynn Hillhouse

Raelynn Hillhouse is an American novelist, expert on international affairs and national security and former smuggler.

Hillhouse studied in Central and Eastern Europe for over six years at various institutions including Moscow State University, Moscow Finance Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) and Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania). She earned her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and her MA in Russian and East European Studies as well as her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.

When living as a student in Europe, she engaged in the black market between East and West, running Cuban rum, smuggling jewels from the Soviet Union and laundering East Bloc currencies. She claims to have been recruited by the East German secret police, the Stasi, and by the Libyan Intelligence Service. Some sources assert that she was an American intelligence operative (McGuire, 2004; Adler, 2004), but Hillhouse denies this (Nolan, 2004.)

Hillhouse's debut novel, Rift Zone (2004), is a spy thriller about a female smuggler who becomes entangled in an East German plot to stop the fall of the Berlin Wall. It received widespread critical acclaim and the American Booksellers Association Book Sense program selected it as one of the best books of 2004 and Library Journal named it one of the year's most promising debuts.

Hillhouse taught at the University of Michigan and was a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii. She is a founding member of the International Thriller Writers.

Hillhouse was born in the Ozarks and currently lives in Hawaii.

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[edit] Fiction

"I knew Julius No. Julius No was a friend of mine. Osama, you are no Dr. No. An open letter to bin Laden from Bond's greatest villains." In James Bond in the 21st Century. Edited by Glenn Yeffeth with Leah Wilson. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2006.

"Secret Agent Chick." In This is Chick-Lit. Edited by Lauren Baratz-Logsted. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2006.

"Diplomatic Constraints," in Thriller. Edited by James Patterson. New York: Mira, 2006.

Rift Zone. New York: Tor/Forge Books, 2004.

[edit] Non-fiction

"Spy Games." Spirit of Aloha Magazine. Magazine of Aloha Airlines. Nov-Dec. 2004.

“The Writing Life. Rift Zone.” Mystery Scene Magazine. Fall 2004.

“A Giant Step Toward Equality: Domestic Partner Benefits.” Co-authored with Jayne Thorson. In Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students. A Handbook for Faculty and Administrators. Edited by Ronni Sanlo. London: Greenwood Press, 1998.

"The East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989." American Journal of Sociology. 1996.

"Communist Politics and Sexual Dissidents. Social Movements in Eastern Europe." Sexual Minorities and Society: The Changing Attitudes toward Sexuality in 20th Century Europe. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Sciences, 1991.

"Out of the Closet behind the Wall: Sexual Politics and Social Change in the GDR." Slavic Review, 49:4 (Winter 1990), 585-96.

"East Germany--Lothar DeMaizière," Leaders of Nations. Lansdale [Penn.]: Current Leaders Publishing Co., 1990.

"A Reevaluation of Soviet Policy in Central Europe: The Soviet Union and the Occupation of Austria." Eastern European Politics and Societies, 3:1 (1989), 83-104.

[edit] References

Nolan, Tom (May 18, 2004). “Women Writers Infiltrate the Realm of Spy Novels.” The Wall Street Journal, p. D10.

(Sept. 6, 2004). “Last Gasp!” People, p. 60.

John McGuire (Sept. 8, 2004). “The Spy who Loved it.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E1.

Dick Adler (August 22, 2004). “Smugglers, Spies, Killers and More.” Chicago Tribune.

Eugene Weber (Oct. 17, 2004). “Freedom, Fire and Ire.” Los Angeles Times, part R, p. 9.

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