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Megan Abbott
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Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott has taught literature, writing, and film at New York University and the State University of New York at Oswego. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University in 2000, and in 2002 Palgrave Macmillan published her nonfiction study, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. She lives in New York City.

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Melbourne Age, February 10, 2012
...US than Australia but hopes to change that. But he has attracted the Edgar Award-winning US crime novelist Megan Abbott, who will be in Adelaide for Writers' Week, to help launch the publishing project. McKinty, David Whish-Wilson and Redhead will also...
Marie Claire UK, December 21, 2011
...A shimmering, disturbing tale of a missing teenage girl and her best friend's quest to find her. Lizzie Hood and Evie Verver are neighbours and best friends, alive with the magic of being 13- a scary time of teeming hormones, teenage possibilities and...
Detroit News, December 12, 2011
...the people in it, and not for anyone else's entertainment. There's a terrific short story by Megan Abbott at the end of Boat, about east side girls learning to see past Alter Road, though it's a reprint. And there's an interesting look at the over-tilled...
Detroit News, December 12, 2011
...the people in it, and not for anyone else's entertainment. There's a terrific short story by Megan Abbott at the end of Boat, about east side girls learning to see past Alter Road, though it's a reprint. And there's an interesting look at the over-tilled...
Washington Examiner, December 10, 2011
...Los Angeles -- and the complicated dynamics of using undocumented immigrants for domestic help. "The End of Everything" Megan Abbott. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $23.99 (256p) Psychological thrillers rarely get more haunting than this tale...
Guardian.co.uk, December 9, 2011
...good stuff, what's it like for the general reader? In the US, by contrast, a writer like Megan Abbott can cross genres, become a literary crime/mystery author. Over here, the crossing of genres is viewed with horror, if it's viewed at all. Mixing the...
Salon, December 9, 2011
...take a bow. “Ocean’s Kingdom” is, by the way, the story of a king and his daughter. Megan Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of four novels. Her latest, “The End of Everything” (Reagan Arthur Books), was published in July 2011...
Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room, September 23, 2011
...Daniel Palmer), and spending even a brief time with Karin Slaughter, Lisa Unger, Gregg Hurwitz, Jonathan Hayes, and Megan Abbott, who never cease to amaze me with their intelligence, humor, and insight. This is far from a complete list, and I could go...
Pulp Serenade, September 20, 2011
...Over the weekend, my new crime fiction column, "The Criminal Kind," debuted over at The Los Angeles Review of Books. In this first installment, I reviewed five books:Duane SwierczynskiFun & GamesMulholland Books, June 2011. 304 pp."Duane Swierczynski is...
Books and Needlepoint, September 15, 2011
...is currently on your nightstand?Lesley: Stacks and stacks of books. I just finished THE END OF EVERYTHING by Megan Abbott, which knocked my socks off. Last night I started, Felix Francis's GAMBLE. I'm a diverse readers. Love both character and plot...
Burton Book Review, August 1, 2011
...Setiawan (2009, 4.5 stars)Sunset Park by Paul Auster (2010, 2 stars)The End of Everything by Megan Abbott (2011, 3.5 stars)The Girl She Used To Be by David Cristofano (2009, 3.5 stars)The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa (2009, 5 stars)The...
Burton Book Review, July 29, 2011
...with its own weird twists that kept me guessing - making me think I should look up the author Megan Abbott's previous works...
The Place Where Jack Pendarvis has a "Blog", July 27, 2011
...out to Off Square Books at 5 PM to catch a rare appearance of Doomed Book Club members Megan Abbott and Scott Phillips. They will knock your socks off and make you faint with a thrill ride of reading out loud! DO IT you goons! DO YOU THINK I...
The Place Where Jack Pendarvis has a "Blog", July 17, 2011
...Hey, remember how Megan Abbott is coming here to read on the 27th ? Turns out that fellow Doomed Book Club member Scott Phillips is going to be at the same event, reading from...