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This article is about the female American-born English author of children's fiction. For the male British television writer and director, see Robin Stevens.
| Robin Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1988-01-15) 15 January 1988 (age 37) California, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Notable works | Murder Most Unladylike series |
| Website | |
| robin-stevens | |
Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an American-born English woman author of children's fiction, best known for her Murder Most Unladylike series. She has spoken of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work.
Early life
Stevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has dual US and UK citizenship. She attended The Dragon School and Cheltenham Ladies College. Her father, Robert Stevens, was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and her mother worked at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. Her grandfather was the literary critic Wayne C. Booth.
Stevens studied English at the University of Warwick, later gaining an MA in crime fiction from King's College London. She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge.
Career
Before becoming a full-time author, Stevens worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, and as an editor at Egmont.
Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but did not send it to agencies for two years.
Stevens has cited the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work – particularly the authors Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Awards
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Oxfordshire Book Awards - Best Primary Novel, Murder Most Unladylike |
| 2015 | Waterstones Children's Book Prize - Best Younger Fiction, Murder Most Unladylike |
| 2016 | ALA Notable Children's Book, for Murder Most Unladylike (published as Murder is Bad Manners in the USA) |
| 2017 | CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8–12), for Mistletoe and Murder |
Works
Murder Most Unladylike series
- Murder Most Unladylike (2014)
- Arsenic For Tea (2015)
- First Class Murder (2015)
- Jolly Foul Play (2016)
- Mistletoe and Murder (2016)
- Cream Buns and Crime (2017)
- A Spoonful of Murder (2018)
- Death In The Spotlight (2018)
- Top Marks For Murder (2019)
- ’’Case Of The Missing Treasure’’(2019)
- ’’Case Of The Drowned Pearl’’(2020)
- Case Of The Blue Violet (2016)
- Case Of The Deepdean Vampire (2016)
Standalone
- The Guggenheim Mystery (2017), a sequel to The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Contributor
- Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016)
- Return to Wonderland: Stories Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice (2019)
References
- ^ "Robin Stevens". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Stevens, Robin. "Murder Most Unladylike wins an Oxfordshire Book Award!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- Stevens, Robin (2016). Mistletoe and Murder. London: Penguin. p. 351. ISBN 9780141369723.
- Stevens, Robin. "I Wish I'd Written: Robin Stevens". Books for Keeps. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ Stevens, Robin. "Tweet, 16 Jan 2018". Twitter. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- Caldwell, Anne. "An Indies Introduce Q&A With Robin Stevens". BookWeb. American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- Stevens, Robin. "The End of an Era – All Change for 2016!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- Eyre, Charlotte. "'There's something so compelling about murder'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- Stevens, Robin (2017). Cream Buns and Crime. London: Penguin. pp. 79–85. ISBN 9780141376561.
- "Rob Biddulph's 'Blown Away' wins the 2015 Waterstones Children's Book Prize". Waterstones Blog. Waterstones. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- "2016 Notable Children's Books". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- "2017 Awards: CrimeFest". CrimeFest. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
