Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective. She is also an American writer and producer of television. Biography. Abbott graduated from the University of Michigan. Growing up, Abbott was greatly intrigued by the 1930 and 1940s movies she saw at a movie theater in Grosse Pointe. She believes that watching these films as a child gave her her lifelong interest in crime fiction . She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University, and has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-2014, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. In addition to literature, Abbott has written for major journals and newspapers, including the "Los Angeles Times". She also writes a blog with novelist Sara Gran. Abbott was a screenwriter for "The Deuce", an HBO show that premiered in 2017 and deals with pornography and the Mafia in New York in the 1970s and  beyond. In 2019, she adapted her bestselling novel "Dare Me" into a TV series on USA Network. She served as co-showrunner on the series, along with Gina Fattore. Influences. Abbott was influenced by film noir, classic noir fiction, and Jeffrey Eugenides's novel "The Virgin Suicides". Two of her novels make reference to notorious crimes. "The Song Is You" (2007) is based around the disappearance of Jean Spangler in 1949, and "Bury Me Deep" (2009) on the 1931 case of Winnie Ruth Judd, dubbed "the Trunk Murderess". Reception and awards. Abbott has won the Mystery Writers of America's  Edgar Award for outstanding fiction. "Time" named her one of the "23 Authors That We Admire" in 2011. "Publishers Weekly" gave her 2011 novel "The End of Everything" a starred review.