Joanne Dobson
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Joanne Dobson (born March 27, 1942 in New York City) is a writer of mystery novels and features in Great Women Mystery Writers (2007).[1]
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Biography
Dobson graduated in 1963 from The King's College, New York gaining a degree in English. She later earned a master's from the University of New York at Albany in 1977 and a phD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1985. She taught at Amherst College and Tufts University before becoming a tenure-track professor at Fordham University. She founded a scholarly society devoted to Emily Dickinson and was a founding editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. She lives in Brewster, New York.[1]
Writing
Until recently Dobson's work has featured Karen Pelletier, an English professor at Enfield College in Enfield, Massachusetts, a fictionalized Amherst College. Pelletier is from working class Lowell and became an unmarried mother in high school and estranged from her family. She gets involved in cases involving manuscripts, writers and academia and often in liaison with the local police, specifically detective Charlie Piotrowski with whom she develops a personal relationship through the series.[1]
She has recently announced a new series written in collaboration with Beverle Graves Myers set in World War II New York and featuring a seasoned homicide detective and two young women, a nurse and a reporter. The book was on the bestseller list of the Maine Sunday Telegram.[2]
Bibliography
Karen Pelletier series
- Quieter Than Sleep: A Modern Mystery of Emily Dickinson (1997)
- The Northbury Papers (1998)
- The Raven and the Nightingale: A Modern Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1999)
- Cold and Pure and Very Dead (2000)
- The Maltese Manuscript (2003)
- Death Without Tenure (2009)
- In the Attic (2016)
New York in Wartime Mysteries
- Face of the Enemy (2012), with Beverle Graves Myers
Other novels
- The Kashmiri Shawl (2014)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 page 69-71, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33428-5
- ↑ http://www.joannedobson.com/index.htm
External links
- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1942 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American mystery writers
- American women novelists
- Amherst College faculty
- Fordham University faculty
- People from Brewster, New York
- The King's College (New York) alumni
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
- University at Albany, SUNY alumni
- Tufts University faculty
- Writers from New York City
- Women mystery writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
