Charlotte Armstrong

For other uses, see Charlotte Armstrong (baseball).

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905 in Vulcan, Michigan – July 7, 1969 in Glendale, California) was an American author. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels. She also worked for The New York Times '​ advertising department, as a fashion reporter for Breath of the Avenue (a buyer's guide), and in an accounting firm.

Personal life

Armstrong Lewi graduated from Vulcan High School in Vulcan, Michigan, in June 1921. She attended the junior college program at Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois for one year (1921–22), during which time she served as Editor-in-Chief of the student publication, Ferry Tales. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1925. She had a daughter and two sons with her husband, Jack Lewi.

Awards

In 1957, she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novel A Dram of Poison. She wrote two other Edgar-nominated novels: The Gift Shop (1966) and Lemon in the Basket (1967). Three of her short stories, all published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, were nominated for Edgars: "And Already Lost" (1957), "The Case for Miss Peacock" (1965), and "The Splintered Monday" (1966).

Publications

Screenplays

Films

The following films were adapted from Armstrong's novels and stories.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Detective Fiction
  2. ^ Swartley, Ariel (April 30, 1999) "Guns and Roses: The Women of Noir". LAWeekly.
  3. ^ Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards Database
  4. ^ Fantastic Fiction

Further reading

Burke, Jan (Summer 2007). "The Last Word: The Mean Streets of the Suburbs, the Kindness of Strangers—A Tribute to Charlotte Armstrong". Clues: A Journal of Detection 25.4. pp. 65–69.

Cypert, Rick (2008). The Virtue of Suspense: The Life and Works of Charlotte Armstrong. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press. ISBN 978-1-57591-122-9.

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