Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008)
Autor(a) de Woman without a Past
About the Author
Mystery author Phyllis A. Whitney was born in Yokohama, Japan to American parents on September 9, 1903. After her father's death in 1918, she and her mother traveled from Japan to San Francisco, California on an ocean liner. In 1924, she graduated from McKinley High School in Chicago and sold short mostrar mais stories to newspapers, church papers, and pulp magazines as well as worked in bookstores and libraries. She was a Children's Book Editor of the Chicago Sun's Book Week from 1942 to 1946 and the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1947 to 1948. She also taught juvenile fiction writing courses at Northwestern University in 1945 and at New York University from 1947 to 1958. She writes both juvenile and adult mysteries, many set in an exotic location. Her first juvenile book was published in 1941 and her first adult novel was published in 1943. Since then, she has written over 75 books. She has won numerous awards including the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1961 and 1964, the Sequoyah Award of Oklahoma, and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1988. Phyllis A. Whitney passed away on February 8, 2008 at the age of 104. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo found at author's website
Obras por Phyllis A. Whitney
Malice Domestic 5: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1996) — Editor — 80 exemplares
Writing Juvenile Stories and Novels: How to Write and Sell Fiction for Young People (1947) 23 exemplares
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume One: Hunter’s Green, Dream of Orchids, and The Winter People (2018) 8 exemplares
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Two: Woman Without a Past, The Red Carnelian, and Feather on the Moon (2018) 6 exemplares
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Three: Window on the Square, Thunder Heights, and The Golden Unicorn (2018) 5 exemplares
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Four: The Turquoise Mask, The Trembling Hills, and The Quicksilver Pool (2018) 3 exemplares
fire 2 exemplares
Það vorar á ný 1 exemplar
Fortune's Hand 1 exemplar
Uma Voz na Penumbra 1 exemplar
Thunder Heights and Window on the Square 1 exemplar
Skye Cameron (Mass Market Paperback) 1 exemplar
VERMIGLIO 1 exemplar
Box Set of 4 / The Ebony Swan, the Turquoise Mask, Rainsong, Listen to the Whisperer (1984) 1 exemplar
A Virgem de Jade 1 exemplar
5 Young Adult Mysteries 1 exemplar
Sea Jade / Snowfire 1 exemplar
Domino / Lost Island / The Moonflower 1 exemplar
the haunted cave 1 exemplar
Secret of Goblin Glen. 1 exemplar
Associated Works
A Gothic Treasure Trove: Moonraker's Bride / The Golden Unicorn / Kirkland Revels / Wings of the Falcon / Lady of… (1987) — Contribuidor — 95 exemplares
Het Beste Boek 100: Blinde liefde / De Cock en de treurende kater / Overhaaste ingreep / Domino 2 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Wolf Winter • This Time Next Week • Silver Sword • No Enemy but Time 2 exemplares
Het Beste Boek 129: Ontknoping op Hawaii / Kerndreiging op zee / Een kind van de zon / Zilvervoet — algumas edições — 2 exemplares
Best in Books: Sea Jade, Kennedy without Tears, If Morning Ever Comes, The Ziegfeld's Girl, A Vanishing America (1965) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Whitney, Phyllis A.
- Nome legal
- Whitney, Phyllis Ayame
- Data de nascimento
- 1903-09-09
- Data de falecimento
- 2008-02-08
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Yokohama, Japan
- Local de falecimento
- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- Causa da morte
- pneumonia
- Locais de residência
- Yokohama, Japan (birth)
Berkeley, California, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Staten Island, New York, USA
Hope, New Jersey, USA
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (death) (mostrar todos 8)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Faber, Virginia, USA - Educação
- McKinley High School
- Ocupações
- author
Children's Book Editor (Chicago Sun's Book Week & Philadelphia Inquirer)
teacher - Organizações
- Mystery Writers of America (president 1975)
New York University
Northwestern University
Chicago Public Library
Chicago Sun
Philadelphia Inquirer - Prémios e menções honrosas
- MWA Grand Master (1988)
Romance Writers of America (Lifetime Achievement Award, 1990)
Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement (1990)
Society of Midland Authors (Lifetime Achievement, 1995)
Edgar Award (1961)
Membros
Discussions
Juvenile Series - 50/60s - Original St. Andrew’s Golf Ball em Name that Book (Dezembro 2016)
YA adult mystery blind girl sculpts faces in clay by touch em Name that Book (Dezembro 2013)
80's Paranormal/Mystery set in (maybe) Arkansas or Blue Ridge Mts. em Name that Book (Agosto 2013)
Gothic Romance Novel em Name that Book (Agosto 2012)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 109
- Also by
- 18
- Membros
- 10,480
- Popularidade
- #2,270
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 151
- ISBN
- 785
- Línguas
- 14
- Marcado como favorito
- 14
This is one of Ms. Whiney's juvenile mysteries that involves stepfamilies. In this case, both heroine Joanna 'Jo' Baird and a girl named Liza Prentice are facing the prospect of their mothers providing them with stepfathers. Neither girl likes the man her mother wants to marry. Both wish to find a reason to keep their mothers single, but Liza has fewer scruples than Jo.
The boy is Erik Thoresen, son of the man who grows the vegetables for Scott Dennis' hotel (Scott is Joe's prospective stepfather), cares for the orchards, and makes old-fashioned furniture using old wood and authentic old-time methods.
Liza Prentice is certain that her mother's man, Roger 'Inky' Inklander, is a crook, but he could be just a bullying jerk who didn't hesitate to hurt Eric's cat, Snowdrop (the cat will recover). Liza is manipulative enough to suggest that Scott is mixed up in whatever crooked delas Inky is mixed up in to get Jo's help. Unfortunately, Jo takes the fall for a few of Liza's deeds.
Erik is also certain that Inky is up to something illegal and it has to do with his father's woodworking. Are Liza and Eric right?
There will be a chilling race for safety during the climax before the truth comes out. The stone face will be part of it.
The first several chapters seemed a little too much "been there, done that" to me, but the book picked up. Ms. Whitney had a habit of writing both a juvenile mystery and an adult mystery based on her travels. The adult book was The Stone Bull. The author's note stated that Mohonk Mountain House at Lake Mohonk, near New Paltz, on the edge of the Catskills was the inspiration for this book, although none of the events took place there.
Although I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the Whitney mysteries I read when I was a schoolgirl decades ago, it was worth reading.
Cat fans: Snowdrop does get a few scenes in this book.… (mais)