Academics writing genre fiction
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jmc_bksI forgot to add to yesterday's post: if you are interested in reading other genre fiction by an academic, check out Joanne Dobson's Karen Pelletier mysteries. Karen Pelletier is an associate professor at Enfield College, a liberal arts college in New England. Somehow Karen keeps stumbling into literary mysteries. Dobson is herself a literature/english professor specializing in 19th century American women writers, teaching at Fordham University. She doesn't have a website that I could find, but when I googled her, I found an address and sent off a fan-girl email, to which she responded quite graciously.
The Karen Pelletier books are:
Quieter Than Sleep, which is subtitled A Modern Mystery of Emily Dickinson
The Northbury Papers, which is about newly discovered papers of Serena Northbury, a fictional writer modeled after Emma Southworth and Jo March of Little Women.
The Raven and the Nightingale, about Edgar Allan Poe and the possibility that he "borrowed" The Raven from fictional poet Emmeline Foster.
Cold and Pure and Very Dead, in which Karen stirs up trouble when she names Oblivion Falls, a fictional equivalent to Peyton Place, as one of the best books of the last century. The reclusive author is not happy to be in the limelight once again, and a reporter ends up dead...possibly at her hands.
The Maltese Manuscript in which valuable books, including a copy of Hammett's manuscript, disappear from the Enfield College library.
The Karen Pelletier books are:
Quieter Than Sleep, which is subtitled A Modern Mystery of Emily Dickinson
The Northbury Papers, which is about newly discovered papers of Serena Northbury, a fictional writer modeled after Emma Southworth and Jo March of Little Women.
The Raven and the Nightingale, about Edgar Allan Poe and the possibility that he "borrowed" The Raven from fictional poet Emmeline Foster.
Cold and Pure and Very Dead, in which Karen stirs up trouble when she names Oblivion Falls, a fictional equivalent to Peyton Place, as one of the best books of the last century. The reclusive author is not happy to be in the limelight once again, and a reporter ends up dead...possibly at her hands.
The Maltese Manuscript in which valuable books, including a copy of Hammett's manuscript, disappear from the Enfield College library.
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Another one
Date: 2006-01-20 08:26 pm (UTC)Here's a page with a summary of her books. And thanks for the Joanne Dobson recs! They sound great, I'll look them up!
Re: Another one
Date: 2006-01-20 08:52 pm (UTC)