Paula L. Woods
Paula L. Woods (born 1953 in Los Angeles[1]) is an African-American crime novelist and literary critic. Her 1999 novel, Inner City Blues, won the Macavity Award for best first mystery,[2] and was followed by other novels featuring its heroine, L.A. policewoman Charlotte Justice. She has also edited an anthology of African-American crime literature and co-edited (with Felix H. Liddell) three anthologies of African American literature illustrated with African American fine art.
Crime fiction novels[edit]
- Inner City Blues (1999)
- Stormy Weather (2001)
- Dirty Laundry (2003)
- Strange Bedfellows (2006) ISBN 0345457021
Editor[edit]
- Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century (1995)
- With Felix H. Liddell:
- Merry Christmas, Baby: A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury (1996)
- I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994)
- I, Too, Sing America: The African American Book of Days (1992)
References[edit]
- ^ page 240, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33428-5
- ^ Janet A. Rudolph (2011). "Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International Macavity Awards. Mystery Readers International. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2000-01-15). "Meet Paula L. Woods". The Mystery Reader. Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
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- Living people
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- American crime writers
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- Macavity Award winners
- Writers from Los Angeles
- American women mystery writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century African-American women
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- 21st-century African-American writers