Laura Lippman
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Laura Lippman | |
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| Lippman at the 2015 National Book Festival Lippman at the 2015 National Book Festival | |
| Born | January 31, 1959 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Wilde Lake High School |
| Subject | Detective fiction |
| Notable awards | Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, Nero, Barry, Macavity, Strand and Shamus |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | |
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Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.[1] Her novels have won multiple awards, including an Agatha Award, seven Anthony Awards, two Barry Awards, an Edgar Award, a Gumshoe Award, a Macavity Award, a Nero Award, two Shamus Awards, and two Strand Critics Award.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Columbia, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman, Jr., a writer at The Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Mabry Lippman, now retired as a school librarian for the Baltimore City Public School System.[2] Her paternal grandfather was Jewish, and the remainder of her ancestry is Scots-Irish.[3][4] Lippman was raised Presbyterian.[5] She attended high school in Columbia, Maryland, where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School It's Academic team. She also participated in several dramatic productions, including Finian's Rainbow, The Lark, and Barefoot in the Park. She graduated from Wilde Lake High School in 1977.[6]
Lippman is a former reporter for the now defunct San Antonio Light and The Baltimore Sun. She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Monaghan, a reporter turned private investigator. Lippman's works have won the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, Nero, Gumshoe and Shamus awards. What the Dead Know (2007), was the first of her books to make the New York Times Best Seller list, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award.
In addition to the Tess Monaghan novels, Lippman has written works independent of that character. Her novel Every Secret Thing was adapted as a 2014 movie starring Diane Lane. Her novel Lady in the Lake was adapted as a limited series for Apple TV.[7]
Lippman lives in the South Baltimore neighborhood of Federal Hill and frequently writes in the neighborhood coffee shop Spoons.[8] In addition to writing, she teaches at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, just outside Baltimore. In January 2007, Lippman taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College. In March 2013, she was the guest of honor at Left Coast Crime.
Representation in other media
[edit | edit source]The character Bunk is shown to be reading one of her books, In a Strange City, in episode eight of the first season of The Wire. Lippman appeared in a scene in the first episode of the last season of The Wire as a reporter working in the Baltimore Sun newsroom.[9]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]In 2000, Lippman began dating and soon living with David Simon, another former Baltimore Sun reporter. He became the creator and an executive producer of the HBO series The Wire (which premiered in 2002). They lived in a "narrow brick row house", in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood.[10][11]
In 2006, Lippman married Simon in a ceremony officiated by filmmaker John Waters.[12][13] She had been married to another man for seven years, which ended in a "difficult divorce." Simon had been married twice before.[10] Lippman and Simon have a daughter who was born in 2010.[14]
Lippman and Simon separated in 2020, divorcing in 2024.[15] The two continue to co-parent their daughter.[16]
Awards
[edit | edit source]What the Dead Know was a New York Times Best Seller.[17]
In 2014, Lippman won the inaugural Pinckley Prize for a Distinguished Body of Work.[18]
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Baltimore Blues | Shamus Award for Best First Novel | Finalist | [19] |
| Charm City | Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist | [19] | |
| Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original | Won | [19] | ||
| Macavity Award for Best First Novel | Finalist | [19][20] | ||
| Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original | Won | [19][21] | ||
| 1999 | Butchers Hill | Agatha Award for Best Novel | Won | [19][22][23] |
| Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original | Won | [19][22][24] | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist | [19][22] | ||
| Macavity Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19][20][22] | ||
| Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist | [19][22] | ||
| In Big Trouble | Agatha Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] | |
| 2000 | Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original | Won | [19][24] | |
| Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist | [19] | ||
| Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original | Won | [19][21] | ||
| The Sugar House | Nero Award | Won | [19] | |
| 2003 | Every Secret Thing | Hammett Prize | Finalist | [19] |
| The Last Place | Shamus Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] | |
| 2004 | By a Spider’s Thread | Agatha Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] |
| Every Secret Thing | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Won | [19][24] | |
| Barry Award for Best Novel | Won | [19] | ||
| 2005 | By a Spider’s Thread | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] |
| Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] | ||
| 2006 | To the Power of Three | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] |
| Gumshoe Award for Best Mystery | Won | |||
| 2007 | No Good Deeds | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Won | [19][24] |
| 2008 | "Hardly Knew Her" from Dead Man's Hand | Anthony Award for Best Short Story | Won | |
| What the Dead Know | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Won | [19][24] | |
| Barry Award for Best Novel | Won | [19] | ||
| Gold Dagger Award | Finalist | [19] | ||
| Macavity Award for Best Novel | Won | [19][20][25] | ||
| 2009 | Life Sentences | Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel | Finalist | [26] |
| “Scratch a Woman” in Hardly Knew Her | Macavity Award for Best Short Story | Finalist | [20] | |
| 2011 | I’d Know You Anywhere | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19][27] |
| Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] | ||
| 2015 | After I'm Gone | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Won | [19][24] |
| Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel | Won | [28] | ||
| 2017 | Wilde Lake | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19][29] |
| Barry Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] | ||
| Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel | Finalist | [19][20][30] | ||
| 2019 | Sunburn | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19][31][32] |
| Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel | Won | [33][34] | ||
| 2020 | Lady in the Lake | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist | [19] |
| Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel | Finalist | [19][35][36] | ||
| Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel | Finalist | [37][38] | ||
| 2021 | Dream Girl | Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel | Finalist | [39] |
| 2022 | CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger | Finalist | [19][40] |
Publications
[edit | edit source]Tess Monaghan series
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- Charm City (1997). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Butchers Hill (1998). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- In Big Trouble (1999). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Sugar House (2000). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- In a Strange City (2001). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Last Place (2002). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- By A Spider's Thread (2004). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- No Good Deeds (2006). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Another Thing to Fall (2008). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Girl in the Green Raincoat (2011). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Hush, Hush (2015). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Short stories
[edit | edit source]- "Orphans' Court" (1999) (short story in First Cases: Volume 3, edited by Robert J. Randisi)
- "Ropa Vieja" (2001) (short story in Murderers Row, edited by Otto Penzler)
- "The Shoeshine Man's Regrets" (2004) (short story in Murder and All That Jazz, edited by Robert J. Randisi)
Standalone works
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- Every Secret Thing (2004). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- To The Power of Three (2005). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- What the Dead Know (2007). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Little Sister in the UK)
- Life Sentences (2009). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- I'd Know You Anywhere (2010). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Don't Look Back in the UK)
- The Most Dangerous Thing (2011). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- And When She Was Good (2012). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- After I'm Gone (2014). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Wilde Lake (2016). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Sunburn (2018). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Lady in the Lake (2019). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Dream Girl: A Novel (2021). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Prom Mom (2023). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Murder Takes A Vacation (2025). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Short story collections
[edit | edit source]- Baltimore Noir (2006). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (editor and contributed one story)[41]
- Hardly Knew Her: Stories (2008). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Seasonal Work: Stories (2022). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Memoir
[edit | edit source]- Summer of Fall (2023). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Scribd original)
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laura Lippman.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Interview with Laura Lippman in Shots Ezine, September 2012 (archived)
- Interview with Laura Lippman in Topic magazine, March 2019, Issue 21: Crime Archived March 14, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- Laura Lippman interview in HuffPost, September 13, 2013: "How Laura Lippman Changed Paths At 42 And Became A Bestselling Author
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