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My Take
What draws me to Laura Lippman is the journalist's spine behind the crime novelist. Reporters learn to chase the human mess under a headline, and that instinct seems to power her Baltimore-rooted fiction. The trophy shelf says it all: seven Anthony Awards, an Edgar, a Macavity and more, year after year. That is not luck, it is a writer who keeps showing up and delivering. I respect durability over flash, and Lippman strikes me as the rare author whose craft has only deepened with each book. She is on my list to finally sit down and read properly.
Overview
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels. 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.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Laura Lippman
- Name (Japanese)
- ローラ・リップマン
- Reading
- ろーら・りっぷまん
- Born
- January 31, 1959 (age 67)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Boar
- Origin
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- novelist / writer / journalist / crime fiction writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Wilde Lake High School
- University
- Northwestern University
Awards & achievements
- 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original
- 1999 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
- 2008 Macavity Awards
- 2000 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
- 2004 Barry Award for Best Novel
- 2004 Anthony Award for Best Novel
- 2007 Anthony Award for Best Novel
- 2008 Anthony Award for Best Novel
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.