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Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman
Lippman at the 2015 National Book Festival
Lippman at the 2015 National Book Festival
Born (1959-01-31) January 31, 1959 (age 65)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Alma materNorthwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Wilde Lake High School
SubjectDetective fiction
Notable awardsAgatha, Anthony, Edgar, Nero, Barry, Macavity, Strand and Shamus
Spouse
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(m. 2006; sep. 2020)​
Children1
Website
www.lauralippman.com

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

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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, a retired 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's novel Every Secret Thing was adapted into a 2014 movie starring Diane Lane. Her novel Lady in the Lake was adapted into 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.

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

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In 2006, Lippman married David Simon, another former Baltimore Sun reporter, and creator and an executive producer of the HBO series The Wire, in a ceremony officiated by John Waters.[10][11] Previously she had been married for seven years, to another man, which ended in a "difficult divorce," and in 2000, she began living with Simon, in a "narrow brick row house", in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood, and dating him.[12][13]

Lippman and Simon have a daughter, who was born in 2010.[14] Lippman and Simon separated in 2020 but neither has since filed for divorce. The two continue to co-parent their daughter.[15]

Awards

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What the Dead Know was a New York Times Best Seller.[16]

In 2014, Lippman won the inaugural Pinckley Prize for a Distinguished Body of Work.[17]

Awards for Lippman's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
1998 Baltimore Blues Shamus Award for Best First Novel Finalist [18]
Charm City Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Finalist [18]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original Won [18]
Macavity Award for Best First Novel Finalist [18][19]
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original Won [18][20]
1999 Butchers Hill Agatha Award for Best Novel Won [18][21][22]
Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Won [18][21][23]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original Finalist [18][21]
Macavity Award for Best Novel Finalist [18][19][21]
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original Finalist [18][21]
In Big Trouble Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
2000 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Won [18][23]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original Finalist [18]
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original Won [18][20]
The Sugar House Nero Award Won [18]
2003 Every Secret Thing Hammett Prize Finalist [18]
The Last Place Shamus Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
2004 By a Spider’s Thread Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
Every Secret Thing Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [18][23]
Barry Award for Best Novel Won [18]
2005 By a Spider’s Thread Anthony Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
2006 To the Power of Three Anthony Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
Gumshoe Award for Best Mystery Won
2007 No Good Deeds Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [18][23]
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 [18][23]
Barry Award for Best Novel Won [18]
Gold Dagger Award Finalist [18]
Macavity Award for Best Novel Won [18][19][24]
2009 Life Sentences Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Finalist [25]
“Scratch a Woman” in Hardly Knew Her Macavity Award for Best Short Story Finalist [19]
2011 I’d Know You Anywhere Anthony Award for Best Novel Finalist [18][26]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
2015 After I'm Gone Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [18][23]
Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Won [27]
2017 Wilde Lake Anthony Award for Best Novel Finalist [18][28]
Barry Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel Finalist [18][19][29]
2019 Sunburn Anthony Award for Best Novel Finalist [18][30][31]
Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Won [32][33]
2020 Lady in the Lake Anthony Award for Best Novel Finalist [18]
Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel Finalist [18][34][35]
Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Finalist [36][37]
2021 Dream Girl Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Finalist [38]
2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Finalist [18][39]

Publications

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Tess Monaghan series

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  • Baltimore Blues (1997). ISBN 0380788756
  • Charm City (1997). ISBN 0380788764
  • Butchers Hill (1998). ISBN 0380798468
  • In Big Trouble (1999). ISBN 0380798476
  • The Sugar House (2000). ISBN 0380978172
  • In a Strange City (2001). ISBN 0380978180
  • The Last Place (2002). ISBN 0380978199
  • By A Spider's Thread (2004). ISBN 0060506695
  • No Good Deeds (2006). ISBN 978-0060570729
  • Another Thing to Fall (2008). ISBN 978-0061128875
  • The Girl in the Green Raincoat (2011). ISBN 978-0061938368
  • Hush, Hush (2015). ISBN 978-0062083425

Short stories

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Standalone works

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Novels

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Short story collections

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Memoir

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See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laura Lippman.

References

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  2. ^ Evory, Ann (November 15, 1978). Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Gale. p. 518. ISBN 9780810300385. Archived from the original on May 12, 2024. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
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  4. ^ "[Committee] Authors Laura Lippman & David Simon ('the Wire') Sunday 3 PM @ Bolton St.Synagogue". Bsfs.org. January 14, 2005. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
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  10. ^ Zak, Dan (September 28, 2010). "'The Wire' writer David Simon among MacArthur genius grant winners". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
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  12. ^ Gross, Jane (July 28, 2005). "Laura Lippman: When Friendship Fails You". New York Times. Archived from the original on July 8, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2024. she recalls the end of her seven-year marriage...In five years together, Ms. Lippman said, she and Mr. Simon have routinely aired their grievances...Ms. Lippman and Mr. Simon live in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore...Ms. Lippman and Mr. Simon have much in common, including an aversion to marriage after difficult divorces.
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