Laura Lippman

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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

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 has written works independent of that character. Her novel Every Secret Thing was adapted as a 2014 movie starring Diane Lane. Her novel Lady in the Lake was adapted as 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.

Representation in other media

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

In 2000, she began dating and soon living with David Simon, another former Baltimore Sun reporter, and creator and an executive producer of the HBO series The Wire, in a "narrow brick row house", in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood.[10][11]

In 2006, Lippman married Simon in a ceremony officiated by John Waters.[12][13] She had been married for seven years, to another man, which ended in a "difficult divorce."[10] Lippman and Simon married in 2006 and have a daughter who was born in 2010.[14]

Lippman and Simon separated in 2020, divorcing in 2024.[15] The two continue to co-parent their daughter.[16]

Awards

What the Dead Know was a New York Times Best Seller.[17]

In 2014, Lippman won the inaugural Pinckley Prize for a Distinguished Body of Work.[18]

Awards for Lippman's writing
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1998 Baltimore Blues Shamus Award for Best First Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
Charm City Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Template:CFinalist [19]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original Won [19]
Macavity Award for Best First Novel Template:CFinalist [19][20]
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original Won [19][21]
1999 Butchers Hill Agatha Award for Best Novel Won [19][22][23]
Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Won [19][22][24]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original Template:CFinalist [19][22]
Macavity Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19][20][22]
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original Template:CFinalist [19][22]
In Big Trouble Agatha Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
2000 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Won [19][24]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original Template:CFinalist [19]
Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original Won [19][21]
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2003 Every Secret Thing Hammett Prize Template:CFinalist [19]
Script error: No such module "sort". Shamus Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
2004 By a Spider’s Thread Agatha Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
Every Secret Thing Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [19][24]
Barry Award for Best Novel Won [19]
2005 By a Spider’s Thread Anthony Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
2006 To the Power of Three Anthony Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
Gumshoe Award for Best Mystery Won
2007 No Good Deeds Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [19][24]
2008 Script error: No such module "sort". from Dead Man's Hand Anthony Award for Best Short Story Won
What the Dead Know Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [19][24]
Barry Award for Best Novel Won [19]
Gold Dagger Award Template:CFinalist [19]
Macavity Award for Best Novel Won [19][20][25]
2009 Life Sentences Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Template:CFinalist [26]
Script error: No such module "sort". in Hardly Knew Her Macavity Award for Best Short Story Template:CFinalist [20]
2011 I’d Know You Anywhere Anthony Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19][27]
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
2015 After I'm Gone Anthony Award for Best Novel Won [19][24]
Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Won [28]
2017 Wilde Lake Anthony Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19][29]
Barry Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel Template:CFinalist [19][20][30]
2019 Sunburn Anthony Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19][31][32]
Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Won [33][34]
2020 Lady in the Lake Anthony Award for Best Novel Template:CFinalist [19]
Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel Template:CFinalist [19][35][36]
Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Template:CFinalist [37][38]
2021 Dream Girl Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery Novel Template:CFinalist [39]
2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Template:CFinalist [19][40]

Publications

Tess Monaghan series

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Short stories

  • "Orphans' Court" (1999) (short story in First Cases: Volume 3, edited by Robert J. Randisi)
  • "Ropa Vieja" (2001) (short story in Murderers Row, edited by Otto Penzler)
  • "The Shoeshine Man's Regrets" (2004) (short story in Murder and All That Jazz, edited by Robert J. Randisi)

Standalone works

Novels

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Short story collections

Memoir

See also

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References

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