Joan Lowery Nixon

Joan Lowery Nixon
Born (1927-02-03)February 3, 1927
Los Angeles, California, US
Died June 28, 2003(2003-06-28) (aged 76)
Houston, Texas
Occupation Author
Nationality American
Genre Young adult fiction
Spouse Hershell Nixon
Children

Kathleen Brush
Maureen Quinlan
Eileen McGowan

Joe Nixon

Joan Lowery Nixon (February 3, 1927 – June 28, 2003) was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.

Biography

Joan Lowery Brown was born on February 3, 1927 in Los Angeles, California. In 1947, she received a degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. At USC, she met her husband, Hershell, a United States Navy officer and a geologist. At USC she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority.[1] She sold her books at various schools in Los Angeles before becoming a full-time writer. Her son, Joe Nixon, is a Houston lawyer, who was from 1995 to 2007 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 133 in Houston.[2] Nixon, her husband, and their children lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, before finally settling in the Memorial and Tanglewood area of Houston, Texas. She died of pancreatic cancer in Houston on June 28, 2003.[2]

Work

Nixon wrote more than 140 books,[2] including The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore (1979). She co-authored several science books with her geologist husband Hershell Nixon.

Nixon was the only author to win four Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and had five additional nominations.[2] She won the California Young Reader Medal of the California Library Association twice. She also won the Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Award twice, and received the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Her book Land of Hope is used in some middle schools.

Her novel The Other Side of Dark was made into the 1995 TV movie Awake To Danger, starring Tori Spelling and Michael Gross.

References

  1. ↑ "Notable Kappa Deltas". Kappa Delta Sorority. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Joan Lowery Nixon". The Houston Chronicle. June 30, 2003. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
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