Speaker Biographies

Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott is the Edgar(r)-winning author of the crime novels Queenpin, The Song is You and Die a Little, and the nonfiction study, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. Her stories have appeared in Wall Street Noir, Detroit Noir, Storyglossia and Queens Noir. She holds a doctorate in literature and is the editor of the collection, A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir. Her latest novel, Bury Me Deep (2009), is loosely based on a famous true crime from the 1930s. She lives in Queens, New York.

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