Margaret Maron
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Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.
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[edit] Biography
Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now live.
[edit] Writings
Maron is the author of numerous short stories and more than 20 mystery novels to date. One series of novels features Sigrid Harald, a loner lieutenant in the NYPD whose policeman father was killed in the line of duty when she was a toddler. Another series follows the adventures of Judge Deborah Knott, attorney and daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger.
[edit] Awards and recognitions
Her 1992 novel Bootlegger's Daughter was a Washington Post bestseller and swept all the major awards that year, including the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards. She has since won additional Agathas for Up Jumps the Devil (1996), and Storm Track (2000).
Her works have been translated into a dozen languages and are on the reading lists of many courses in contemporary Southern literature.
[edit] Professional activities
Maron is a founding member and past president of Sisters in Crime and of the American Crime Writers' League, and a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America.
