Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is an American crime fiction novelist and journalist who was born on January 31, 1959, in Atlanta.
Lippman attended Wilde Lake High School before pursuing her higher education at Northwestern University, where she studied at the Medill School of Journalism. That training shaped the dual career she would go on to build, working as both a journalist and a writer of detective fiction. She has authored more than twenty novels in the genre, producing a body of work in English that spans decades of sustained output in crime writing.
The awards recognizing her fiction are numerous and draw from across the major institutions of the crime and mystery writing world. She has received the Anthony Award for Best Novel as well as the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original. Additional recognition came in the form of a Barry Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original, an Agatha Award for Best Novel, a Macavity Award, a Shamus Award, a Nero Award, and a Gumshoe Award. Together these honors span the breadth of the crime fiction community's most prominent award-granting bodies, reflecting the range of formats and categories in which her work has been recognized.
Detective fiction and crime writing constitute the defining genre of Lippman's career as a novelist, and her output of more than twenty novels in that tradition marks her as a consistent and productive contributor to the form.
Quotes by Laura Lippman
I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.
I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities. As long as you came home for dinner, everything was fine.
After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to change genres if I'm happy writing what I write.' And I am.
I never knew how passive-aggressive people could be until I became a parent. Or even aggressive-aggressive. It actually began before I had a child. A relative asked me out to lunch and told me I was too old for motherhood.
Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside is that you can't read too much, and even 'junk' reading can be constructive.
If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.