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Carolyn Hart is the author of over forty mysteries as well as the winner of three Agatha Awards for Best Novel, two Anthonys, and two Macavitys. She is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the International Crime Writers Association, the International Thrillers Association, and the American Crime Writers League. She taught professional writing in the University of Oklahoma School of Journalism from 1982-85.
One of her books Letter From Home, a stand alone novel set in Oklahoma, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers at Oklahoma State University Tulsa. The novel won the Agatha for Best Mystery Novel of 2003 and was a New York Times notable book.
Hart was one of ten mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington D.C. in 2003 and again in 2007. In March 2004 she received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. She has twice won the annual Oklahoma Book Award for best novel. In April 2004 she spoke at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. on mysteries in American culture. She received the Ridley Pearson Award at Murder in Grove, Boise, Idaho, in 2005 for significant contributions to the mystery field. She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Malice Domestic and the Amelia Award in May 2013.
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Soft voices that croon words as if they were babies to be cosseted, smiling
faces that ease a day's tribulations better than any shot of whisky, a sense of
belonging that time or space or distance or loss can never destroy, a rueful yet
accepting certainty that the past is always prologue, these are the mainstays of
Southern character.
I grew up in Oklahoma which is not part of the Deep South, but it is very much a
state with a deep Southern heritage. Being Southern is not so much a matter of
geography as a matter of culture. My parents were both Texans and, as all Texans
know, much of that grand and glorious state was settled by those who left the
South after the War between the States. My Southern attitudes and sympathies had
this beginning and I felt very much at home when I started vacationing in South
Carolina's Low Country in the 1970s.
My sense of comfort with the Low Country was a major reason I decided to set a
mystery series -- the "Death on Demand" books -- on a fictional sea
island off the coast of South Carolina. And oh what a wonderful choice that
turned out to be. It has given me a fabulous background for a series that now
includes 14 titles.
The South teems with delightful ...
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