Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott (born 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, with a female twist. She has stated that she was influenced by film noir as well as by classic noir fiction.^[1] Two of her novels reference notorious crimes. The Song is You (2007) is based around the disappearance of Jean Spangler in 1949 and Bury Me Deep (2009) on the 1931 case of Winnie Ruth Judd, dubbed 'the Trunk Murderess'.

Novels

• Die a Little (2005)
• The Song is You (2007)
• Queenpin (2007) winner of the Barry Award for best paperback novel and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award for best paperback original.
• Bury Me Deep (2009)
• The End of Everything (2011)

Non-fiction

• The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled fiction and Film Noir (2002)

Editor

• A Hell of a Woman: an Anthology of Female Noir (2007)

Abbott as Blogger

• blog with novelist Sara Gruen

References

1. ^ interview

External links

• Megan Abbott’s website
• short statement on why she thinks LA is so associated with noir
• Interview

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