Recommended by my British mother, Dorothy L. I’m currently at work on my follow-up to Clark and Division, and had fun weaving in Himes and his debut novel, which was written while he lived in the Los Angeles home of a Japanese American female writer who had been sent to a World War II detention center.Įlizabeth Penney (nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award – Chapter and Curse): Long before I became an author, I was a voracious reader of mysteries. Of course, his Rage in Harlem and his Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones series, but also his first standalone, If He Hollers Let Him Go, which isn’t quite a mystery per se.
Naomi Hirahara (nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award – Clark and Division): I’ll have to select my go-to-Chester Himes. She lives with Jon Kardon in New Orleans and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts._ Molly Odintz: If you could pick one classic crime author to recommend to new mystery readers, who would it be? She is committed to celebrating and honoring the city’s fragile and fascinating culture, environment, and history. Find out more about the historical backstory here, and through these links.Ī native Bostonian and die-hard member of Red Sox Nation, Ms. Together, they identified ten local families who had descended from the Jackson Barracks POWs and the local Sicilian-American women they met and married. Speranza started a treasure hunt for information, artifacts, and people. Working with Sal Serio, Curator of the American Italian Library, and Linda DiMarzio Massicot, the daughter of one of the Jackson Barracks POWs, Ms.
In the course of her investigation, she connected with scholars, researchers, and others who’ve been piecing together the little-known stories of some of the 51,000 Italian POWs held in the US from 1943-1945, 1,000 of whom were held at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. Fascinated by this hidden chapter in history, she became determined to find out more. Speranza heard a friend’s story about his parents: an Italian prisoner of war and a French Quarter Sicilian woman who met during World War II in New Orleans. Her first paid job was in the children’s room of her town’s public library, and she was a journalist early in her career, before spending thirty-plus years in the water and critical infrastructure business. She’s been a writer and book nerd all her life. Speranza (she/her) is the granddaughter of Irish and Italian immigrants, raised Catholic, and educated by nuns.
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