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American writer
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Female
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(Plattsburgh (city), New York)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Julia Spencer-Fleming (born 1961) is an American novelist of Mystery fiction. She has won the Agatha Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Awards, Dilys Award, Barry Award (for crime novels), the Nero Award, and Gumshoe Awards. She has also been a finalist for the Edgar Award. Her books feature Clare Fergusson, a retired helicopter pilot turned Episcopal priest and Russ Van Alstyne, a police chief. They are set in Millers Kill, a fictional town in upstate New York.
Spencer-Fleming was born in Plattsburgh, New York and has degrees from Ithaca College, George Washington University and the University of Maine School of Law. Spencer-Fleming lives in Buxton, Maine with her husband, 3 children, a dog, and two cats.
Awards
- 2002 Agatha Award for In the Bleak Midwinter
- 2003 Anthony Award for In the Bleak Midwinter
- 2003 Macavity Award for In the Bleak Midwinter
- 2003 Dilys Award for In the Bleak Midwinter
- 2003 Barry Award for In the Bleak Midwinter
- 2007 Nero Wolfe Award for All Mortal Flesh
- 2007 Gumshoe Award for All Mortal Flesh