Margaret Doody

Margaret Anne Doody (born 1939) is a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame. She helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame, ^[1] and served as its director from 2001-2007.

Fiction writing

Although historical detective stories are now a flourishing genre, with Steven Saylor and Lindsey Davis being particularly prominent in the field of detective stories set in classical antiquity, back in 1978, when Aristotle Detective was first published, Doody was something of a pioneer in the genre. Recently she has added four more to the series featuring Aristotle as a 4th Century B.C. detective. There is also a novella, Anello di bronzo (Ring of Bronze), currently available only in Italian.

Doody's "Aristotle" books are published in Italy by Sellerio editore, which also produced a translation of The Alchemists. In France the mystery novels are published by 10/18. They are also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Greek; individual novels have recently appeared in Polish and Russian. The first "Aristotle" novel has also been published in German.

Bibliography

The Aristotle series

• 1978 - Aristotle Detective
• 1980 - Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin
• 2000 - Aristotle and the Poetic Justice
• 2002 - Aristotle and the Mystery of Life (also published as Aristotle and the Secrets of Life)
• 2003 - Aristotle and the Ring of Bronze
• 2004 - Poison in Athens
• 2005 - Mysteries of Eleusis
• 2010 - Aristotle and the Egyptian Murders

Other novels

• The Alchemists (1980)

Academic books

• A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson (1974)
• The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (1985)
• Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (1996)
• The True Story of the Novel (2000)
• Tropic of Venice (2007)

Notes

1. ^ http://www.nd.edu/~litprog

External links

• Interview with Margaret Doody

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