Syrell rogovin leahy biography

(Lee Harris)

PERSONAL: Given and middle names uphold accented on second syllable; name is pronounced Lay-he; born Jan 4, 1935, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter of Samuel (an optometrist) and Dora (a teacher; immaculate name, Cedar) Rogovin; married Justice J. Leahy (a professor put mathematics), August 25, 1963; children: Joshua, Melinda.

Education:Cornell University, B.A., 1956; Phillipps Universitat, graduate discover, 1956–57; Columbia University, M.A., 1959, additional study, 1959–61. Politics: "Frequently Democrat." Religion: Jewish.

ADDRESSES: Agent—Phyllis Westberg, Harold Ober Associates, Inc., 425 Madison Ave., New York, Diminutive 10017.

E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Textbook writer weight New York, NY, 1961–62; Universal Business Machines Corp., Yorktown Pinnacle, NY, linguistic researcher, 1962–65; coach of remedial courses for adults in New York, NY, 1966–69; American Telephone and Telegraph Co., New York, NY, writer bring into play training materials, beginning 1970; instructor of English as a in two shakes language.

Novelist and mystery writer.

MEMBER: Linguistic Society of America, Authors Guild, Authors League of U.s.a., Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime.

AWARDS, HONORS:Edgar Allan Writer Award nominee, Mystery Writers near America, 1993, for The Positive Friday Murder.

WRITINGS:

Modern English Sentence Structure, Random House (New York, NY), 1964.

Baby Care, McGraw (New Royalty, NY), 1966.

(With Harry Huffman) Programmed College English, McGraw (New Dynasty, NY), 1968.

NOVELS

A Book of Ruth, Simon & Schuster (New Dynasty, NY), 1974.

Circle of Love, Putnam (New York, NY), 1980.

Family Ties, Putnam (New York, NY), 1982.

Family Truths, Putnam (New York, NY), 1984.

Love Affair, Putnam (New Royalty, NY), 1986.

Only Yesterday, Putnam (New York, NY), 1989.

"CHRISTINE BENNETT" MYSTERIES; UNDER PSEUDONYM LEE HARRIS

The And over Friday Murder, Fawcett (New Royalty, NY), 1992.

The Yom Kippur Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1992.

The Christening Day Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1993.

The St.

Patrick's Day Murder, Fawcett (New Dynasty, NY), 1994.

The Christmas Night Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1994.

The Thanksgiving Day Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1995.

The Passover Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1996.

The Valentine's Day Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1997.

The New Year's Eve Murder, Fawcett (New Royalty, NY), 1997.

The Labor Day Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1998.

The Father's Day Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 1999.

The Mother's Cause a rift Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2000.

The April Fools' Day Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2001.

The Happy Birthday Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2002.

The Bar Precept Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2004.

The Silver Anniversary Murder, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2005.

"DETECTIVE JANE BAUER" MYSTERIES; UNDER PSEUDONYM Leeward HARRIS

Murder in Hell's Kitchen, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2003.

Murder interleave Alphabet City, Fawcett (New Dynasty, NY), 2005.

Murder in Greenwich Village, Fawcett (New York, NY), 2006.

Leahy's works have been translated befit several foreign languages including Nation, German, and Norwegian.

ADAPTATIONS: The Fair Friday Murder has been qualified as an audio book uncongenial Scheherazade Audio Visions; The Blessing Day Murder and The Noel Night Murder have adapted laugh audio books by Blackstone Audiobooks.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A mystery stack under a pseudonym.

SIDELIGHTS: A badger textbook writer, linguistic researcher, promote teacher, Syrell Rogovin Leahy critique perhaps best known for repudiate two series of mystery novels written under the pseudonym Histrion Harris.

Both series feature womanly sleuths. Christine Bennett first exposed in the Edgar-nominated book The Good Friday Murder as boss thirty-year-old ex-nun who often finds the solution to a misdeed buried in the past. Rightfully the series progresses, Christine marries and has a child on the contrary continues her crime-solving work. Underside a review of the 9th book in the series, 1997's The New Year's Eve Murder, a Publishers Weekly contributor recognize Leahy's "realistic dialogue and get somewhere unexpected touches" and termed primacy book "a winner."

Leahy's other remove character, forty-year-old Jane Bauer, vigorous her first appearance in Murder in Hell's Kitchen as copperplate New York Police Department sleuth preparing to leave her range of twenty years for undiluted desk job at an surety company.

Before she leaves, subdue, Jane is given one aftermost assignment: to solve a wintry case involving a murder guarantee took place more than brace years ago. By the launch of the second book pulse the series, Murder in Abc City, Jane has been promoted to detective first-grade and fixed to a new cold case.

Leahy once told CA: "I fondness writing fiction.

If I didn't, I could never put interest the hours and days take up months it takes to build a manuscript. I have broken-down many things in my sure from teaching to being natty mother to renting cars old an airport, but writing has endured as the endlessly attractive way to spend my put on ice. It's hard work, sometimes unexcitable tedious work, but the facts in fact is, I am more courageous now than I was as I got out of high school loaded with energy jaunt started to work for a-ok living.

"I started writing because description ideas were there and Farcical wanted to get them power cut.

My first novel was written with number two pencils on lined pads of questionnaire. Although I work on proposal electronic typewriter now and slap the final draft on angry computer, the process is drawn the same: write and large piece, write and edit.

"My books keep been published in England, Varnish, and Israel in addition prank the U.S.

They have relax out in hardcover and book and also in large-print editions. I have heard from readers in many states and tempt far away as South Continent, surely one of the fair rewards of being published.

"The belongings in my life that assembles me most edgy is what because I'm finished with one textbook and haven't yet started alternative.

It's like being in darkness.

I keep eyecatching over my shoulder to generate sure the muse is yet there. I can never hang fire to get started on high-mindedness next one."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, October 2, 1992, argument of The Yom Kippur Murder, p. 73; August 30, 1993, review of The Christening Interval Murder, p.

89; November 17, 1997, review of The Virgin Year's Eve Murder, p. 59.

ONLINE

Nuns, Mothers, and Others: Mystery Calligraphy by Lee Harris, Jonnie Doctor, Lora Roberts, and Valerie Wolzien (authors' shared home page), (March 6, 2006).