Lauren Henderson

Lauren Henderson
Born September 30, 1966
London, UK
Occupation Novelist
Nationality United Kingdom, United States
Alma mater North London Collegiate School, Cambridge University
Genre chick lit, Tart Noir, mystery, young adult fiction
Spouse Greg Stroud
Website
www.rebeccachanceauthor.com, www.laurenhenderson.net

Lauren Milne Henderson is a is a British/American freelance journalist and novelist who also writes as Rebecca Chance. Her books include "glamorous thrillers"/bonkbusters/chick lit, mysteries, Tart Noir, romantic comedies, and young adult. Her literary influences include Jackie Collins, Peter O'Donnell, Agatha Christie, Judith Krantz, Georgette Heyer, PG Woodhouse, Barbara Pym, and A. N. Roquelaure.

Between 1996 and 2011 Henderson published 17 books under her own name. She began writing as Rebecca Chance in 2009, and now writes novels exclusively as Rebecca Chance.

Biography

Lauren Henderson was born in Hampstead, London.[1] She attended North London Collegiate School (the model for Wakefield Hall in the Scarlett Wakefield “Kiss” series) and then St Paul’s Girls' School (the model for St Tabby’s).[2] She then studied English Literature at Cambridge University.

Henderson worked as a journalist for newspapers and music magazines including the New Statesman, Marxism Today, The Observer and Lime Lizard (an independent music magazine).[3] She then moved to Tuscany to write books and learn Italian. After eight years, she moved to Manhattan.[4] Her experiences in the New York dating scene gave her the inspiration for the non-fiction dating book, Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating (Hyperion Books, 2005).

With Sparkle Hayter and Katy Munger, Henderson created Tart Noir, the website. She later edited Tart Noir, the anthology, with Stella Duffy.[5] She has been credited as the founder[6] and godmother[7] of the style.

She also writes for UK-based publications, including Grazia, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian,[8][9] the Mail on Sunday and The Telegraph.[10]

Henderson’s books have been translated into 20 languages. She has participated at literary and crime fiction festivals in the US, UK,[11] and Australia, including being the International Guest Speaker and giving the opening address at the first SheKilda festival[12] in 2001 in St Kilda. In 2010, Henderson interviewed Lindsey Davis for the Italian Cultural Institute’s reading series;[13] she also interviewed Davis in 2011 at Crimefest in Bristol.[14]

Henderson is featured in British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia,[15] published in 2008 and edited by Barry Forshaw, and contributed an entry on Peter O’Donnell, author of the Modesty Blaise caper thrillers. She is the only author to have contributed two essays to the 2012 anthology Books to Die For (edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke), one on Agatha Christie’s Endless Night (as Lauren Henderson) and another on Dorothy L Sayers’s Have His Carcase (as Rebecca Chance).

On October 28, 2014, the New York Times published "Murder, They Wrote," a travel article written by Laura Lippman and Rebecca Chance about a trip on the Orient Express.[16]

Novels

Glamorous Thrillers / Bonkbusters (as Rebecca Chance)

Under the alias Rebecca Chance, Lauren Henderson has written seven novels and a companion ebook of short stories[17] published by Simon and Schuster[18] Rebecca Chance’s novels are all standalones, but they include references to previous characters.

Killer Heels,[19] Bad Angels,[20] Killer Queens,[21] and Bad Brides[22] were all on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

In 2014, she moved to Pan Macmillan with a three-book deal.[23] Chasing Midnight will be released in summer, 2015.

Sam Jones Mystery Series

Henderson wrote seven novels in her Sam Jones mystery series, published in the UK by Random House and in the US by Crown. This series has been optioned by Freemantle Media/Sandbar Productions.

  1. Dead White Female (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995)
  2. Too Many Blondes (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
  3. (The) Black Rubber Dress (Arrow, 1997; Crown, 1999)
  4. Freeze My Margarita (Arrow, 1998; Crown, 2000)
  5. The Strawberry Tattoo (Arrow, 1999; Crown, 2000)
  6. Chained![24] (Arrow, 2001; Three Rivers, 2000)
  7. Pretty Boy (Arrow, 2002; Three Rivers, 2002)

Young Adult

The Kiss/Scarlett Wakefield mystery series is published by Delacorte:[25]

  1. Kiss Me Kill Me (2008)[26]

Kiss Me Kill Me was nominated for an Anthony Award for Best YA Novel in 2009.[27]

  1. Kisses and Lies (2009)
  2. Kiss In The Dark (2010)
  3. Kiss of Death (2011)

The Italian series is also published by Delacorte:

Romantic Comedies

Non-Fiction

Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating has been optioned as a feature film by Martien Holdings/Millennium Films.[28][29]

Anthologies

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/united-kingdom-records-in-birth-marriage-death-and-parish-records?firstname=lauren%20rebecca&firstname_variants=true&lastname=milne%20henderson&yearofbirth=1966&yearofbirth_offset=2
  2. ↑ https://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=12603&view=sml_sptlght
  3. ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17761.Lauren_Henderson
  4. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/author/henderson-lauren/
  5. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/07/bestbooks.fiction
  6. ↑ Hannah Betts (August 27, 2005). "Now you can try dating, Austen style". The Sunday Times. Retrieved December 4, 2010.
  7. ↑ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/doc/256555535.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr%2007,%202002&author=DEBORAH%20HORNBLOW;%20Courant%20Staff%20Writer&pub=Hartford%20Courant&edition=&startpage=&desc=LIBERATED%20WOMEN%20;%20LAUREN%20HENDERSON%20IS%20THE%20GODMOTHER%20OF%20%27TART%20NOIR%27
  8. ↑ Henderson, Lauren (August 27, 2004). "Man watching". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Henderson, Lauren (March 19, 2004). "No need to think straight". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Henderson, Lauren (July 4, 2014). "The high price of being a good girl". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  11. ↑ http://www.laurenhenderson.net/tartcity/harrogate/index.html
  12. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/womens-crime-writing/3489370
  13. ↑ http://www.crimetime.co.uk/mag/index.php/showarticle/1613
  14. ↑ http://www.crimefest.com/PDF/2011_Programme.pdf
  15. ↑ http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view.aspx?FEATURE_ID=19
  16. ↑ http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/orient-express-train-travel/?_r=4
  17. ↑ http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Naughty-Bits/Rebecca-Chance/9781471113031
  18. ↑ http://search.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/_/N-/Ntt-rebecca%20chance
  19. ↑ http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/291471/KillerHeels.png
  20. ↑ http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/255743/bad-angels.jpg
  21. ↑ http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/253782/img.jpg
  22. ↑ http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/287131/bad-brides-lg.png
  23. ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/three-chance-macmillan.html
  24. ↑ "CHAINED: A Sam Jones Novel". Publishers Weekly. November 19, 2001.
  25. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/12603/lauren-henderson
  26. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-73487-5
  27. ↑ http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2009
  28. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1482267/How-to-capture-a-single-man-in-want-of-a-wife.html
  29. ↑ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article559404.ece

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