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Robin Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Born | California, USA |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Notable works | Murder Most Unladylike series |
| Website | |
| https://robin-stevens.co.uk/ | |
Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an award-winning British-American author of children's fiction, best known for writing the Murder Most Unladylike series.
Early life
editStevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has dual US-UK citizenship.[1] She attended The Dragon School[2] and Cheltenham Ladies College.[1] Her father, Robert Stevens, was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford,[3] and her mother worked at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum.[4]
Stevens attended Warwick University and gained an MA in crime fiction.[1] She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge.[1]
Career
editBefore becoming a full-time author, Stevens worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's book shop in Oxford,[5] and as an editor at Egmont.[6]
Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but didn't send it to agencies for two years.[7]
Stevens has cited the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work - particularly the authors Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers, collectively known as the Queens of Crime.[8]
Awards
edit| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Oxfordshire Book Awards - Best Primary Novel, Murder Most Unladylike[2] |
| 2015 | Waterstones Children's Book Prize - Best Younger Fiction, Murder Most Unladylike[9] |
| 2016 | ALA Notable Children's Book, for Murder Most Unladylike (published as Murder is Bad Manners in the USA)[10] |
| 2017 | CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8–12), for Mistletoe and Murder[11] |
Works
editMurder Most Unladylike series
edit- Murder Most Unladylike (2014)
- Arsenic For Tea (2015)
- First Class Murder (2015)
- Jolly Foul Play (2016)
- Mistletoe and Murder (2016)
- Cream Buns and Crime (2017), a collection of short stories and non-fiction
- A Spoonful of Murder (2018)
Standalone
edit- The Guggenheim Mystery (2017), a sequel to The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Contributor
edit- Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016)
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Robin Stevens". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ a b Stevens, Robin. "Murder Most Unladylike wins an Oxfordshire Book Award!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Stevens, Robin (2016). Mistletoe and Murder. London: Penguin. p. 351. ISBN 9780141369723.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Stevens, Robin. "I Wish I'd Written: Robin Stevens". Books for Keeps. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Caldwell, Anne. "An Indies Introduce Q&A With Robin Stevens". BookWeb. American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Stevens, Robin. "The End of an Era - All Change for 2016!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Eyre, Charlotte. "'There's something so compelling about murder'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Stevens, Robin (2017). Cream Buns and Crime. London: Penguin. pp. 79–85. ISBN 9780141376561.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Rob Biddulph's 'Blown Away' wins the 2015 Waterstones Children's Book Prize". Waterstones Blog. Waterstones. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "2016 Notable Children's Books". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "2017 Awards: CrimeFest". CrimeFest. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
External links
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