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Bury Me Deep Nominated for  LA Times Book Prize, Edgar and Hammett Awards

Bury Me Deep Year-End Picks and Top Ten Lists

Dark Family, a reappraisal of V.C. Andrews in The Believer

Profile in The Detroit News

"Death Becomes Them" in Newsweek

Bury Me Deep is an IndieBound Notable Book

Interview in Barnes & Noble Review.

Interview in Mystery News

Die a Little
Going Hollywood


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 Photo: Joshua Gaylord

MEGAN ABBOTT is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, The Song Is You and the 2008 Edgar winner, Queenpin. July 2009 marked the release of Abbott's new novel, Bury Me Deep, which has been nominated for the 2010 Edgar Award and Hammett Prize.

Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English Literature and went on to receive her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University.  She lives in Queens, New York City with her husband, Joshua Gaylord, whose novel Hummingbirds (Harper Collins) was published in Fall 2009.

Abbott's stories have appeared in Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir (2006), Wall Street Noir (2007), Detroit Noir (2007), Storyglossia and Queens Noir (2007). Her nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, was published in 2003. She is also the editor of the Edgar-nominated A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, featuring original tales by 25 mystery and crime authors.

Abbott won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2008 for Queenpin. She was also nominated for an Edgar in 2006 for Best First Novel. In 2008, she won the Barry Award (Deadly Pleasures and Mystery News award) and has been nominated three times for the Anthony Award (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention award).

Also, check out The Rap Sheet, a crime fiction blog to which Megan Abbott serves as an occasional contributor.

Recent Interviews/Profiles
Listen to Megan discuss the novel on Memphis's Book Talk
"The Duchess of Dark Novels"
Megan Abbott: An Email Conversation with Rebecca Godfrey
Big Adios: Interrogation with Megan Abbott
"Megan Abbott: The Streets Are Hers"
"The New Queen of Noir"
"History as Mystery"
Hell of a Woman
The Ladies of Noir: A Roundtable Discussion
In for Questioning
Noir, Sex and Betrayal: An Interview with Megan Abbott
Femme Fatale
An Interview with Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Interviewed by Theresa Schwegel