Laura Lippman
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Lippman at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 24, 2008
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January 31, 1959 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| 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 | David Simon (m. 2008) |
| Children | 1 |
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Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American author of detective fiction.
Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, 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. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish, and the remainder of her ancestry is Scots-Irish. Lippman was raised Presbyterian. 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.
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. Her 2007 release, What the Dead Know, was the first of her books to make the New York Times Best Seller list, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Dagger Award. In addition to the Tess Monaghan novels, Lippman wrote 2003's Every Secret Thing, which has been optioned for a movie.
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