Duck the Halls (Andrews) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—October 25, 1952
• Where—Yorktown, Virginia, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Virginia
• Awards—3 Agatha Awards (more below)
• Currently—lives in Reston, Virginia


Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. The debut won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, as well as awards for best first novel from the … Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards. It also won the Lefty Award for funniest mystery of 1999.

In 2002, she published You've Got Murder, the first novel in the Turing Hopper series featuring an Artificial Intelligence (AI) personality who becomes sentient. That mystery also won the Agatha Award for best mystery of the year.

Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series), studied English and drama at the University of Virginia, and now lives and works in Reston, Virginia.

Awards
1999 - Agatha Award: Best First Novel (Murder with Peacocks)
2000 - Anthony Award: Best First Novel (Peacocks)
2000 - Barry Award: Best First Novel (Peacocks)
2000 - Lefty Award (Peacocks)
1999 - Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice: Best First Mystery (Peacocks)
2002 - Agatha Award: Best Novel (You've Got Murder)
2003 - Toby Bromberg Award: Most Humorous Mystery (Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon)
2005 - Lefty Award (We'll Always Have Parrots)
2007 - Agatha Award: Best Short Story ("A Rat's Tour," Ellery Queen Mystery, October 2007)
2009 - Toby Bromberg Award: Most Humorous Mystery
2012 - Lefty Award (The Real Macaw)
(From Wikipedia. Retrieved 12/9/2017.)