About Author Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, and The End of Everything. Her latest novel, Dare Me, was chosen by Entertainment Weekly and Amazon as one of the Best Books of 2012 and is soon to be a major motion picture.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Detroit Noir, Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, Storyglossia, Queens Noir and The Speed Chronicles.

Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013, she will serve as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss.

She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated for many awards, including three Edgar® Awards, Hammett Prize, the Macavity, Anthony and Barry Awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pushcart Prize.

Interviews with Megan

• Read Megan's interviews with Fiction Writers Review and the American Library Association

• The Drinking Diaries interviews Megan

• Mommyish interviews Megan

• Megan appears on Swedish television to discuss Dare Me

• Kirkus interviews Megan interviews Megan about Dare Me

• Of Routine, Rivalries and Risks: The Huffington Post interview

• Highlights from Megan and Gillian Flynn's day on GoodReads

• Megan's Five Things I'd Tell the Teen Me

• Megan Abbott and Sara Gran discuss their latest books with each other on their blog.

• Listen to Megan discuss Bury Me Deep on Memphis's Book Talk

• An Email Conversation with Rebecca Godfrey

• Mystery News: The Streets Are Hers

• Detroit Metro Times: The New Queen of Noir

• The Queens Courier: History as Mystery

• hardboiled wonderland: Noir Literature, Film and Culture: Hell of a Woman

• BookSlut: The Ladies of Noir: A Roundtable Discussion

• Megan Abbott In for Questioning

• Detectives Beyond Borders: Noir, Sex and Betrayal: An Interview with Megan Abbott

• An Interview with Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) Interviewed by Theresa Schwegel