Author: Dolores Hitchens
Fuller name: Julia Clara Catharine Dolores Birk Olsen Hitchens
Alternate names: Dolan Birkley; Noel Burke; D. B. Olsen; Bert Hitchens and Dolores Hitchens; Dolores 1907-1973 Hitchens; Dolores (D.B. Olsen) HItchens
Born: 1907
Died: 1973
Bio: Julia Clara Catharine Dolores Birk Olsen Hitchens was born in San Antonio, Texas. She worked as a nurse and as a teacher before she started her writing career. She wrote a large number of lightweight mysteries, mostly in the cozy tradition, but she also wrote a pair of hardboiled mysteries featuring a private eye named Jim Sader, books squarely in the Chandlerite tradition. Her first book, A Clue in the Clay, was published in 1938. She produced almost 50 books over the course of her career.