Laura Lippman

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Laura Lippman (born 1959) is an American author of detective fiction.

[edit] Biography

Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where she now lives. She attended high school in Columbia, Maryland, where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School It's Academic team. She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Monaghan, a reporter (like Lippman herself) turned private investigator. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madaline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the Baltimore City Public School System.

She is in a literary circle that includes George Pelecanos and her husband, David Simon. Lippman has won the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, Nero Wolfe, and Shamus awards. Her 2003 standalone novel Every Secret Thing has been optioned for the movies by Academy Award-winning actor Frances McDormand. Laura Lippman's 2007 release What the Dead Know, has been shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Dagger Award and is the first of her books to make the New York Times bestseller list.

In 2007, she taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College (from January 20-28).

She teaches at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore.

Lippman is a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, as is her husband David Simon, creator and an executive producer of the HBO series The Wire. Lippmann was also a reporter at the defunct San Antonio Light.

[edit] Works

• Baltimore Blues
• Charm City
• Butchers Hill
• In Big Trouble
• The Sugar House
• In a Strange City
• Ropa Vieja
• The Last Place
• Every Secret Thing
• Like A Charm (with Karin Slaughter and several other authors)
• By A Spider's Thread
• To The Power of Three
• No Good Deeds
• What the Dead Know
• Another Thing to Fall

[edit] External links

• Laura Lippman home page
• Laura Lippman on What the Dead Know (official publisher web page)