| 词条 | Claire McNab | |||||||||
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Claire McNab (born 1940 in Melbourne, Australia) is the pseudonym of Claire Carmichael. While pursuing a career as a high school teacher in Sydney, she began her writing career with comedy plays and textbooks. She left teaching in the mid-1980s to become a full-time writer. In her native Australia she is known for her self-help and children's books. She is best known for 14 crime novels featuring the highly popular Detective-Inspector Carol Ashton and six featuring undercover agent Denise Cleever. Her latest series features Kylie Kendall, an Australian transplanted to Los Angeles, who determines to become a private investigator in order to pursue her father's business and his business partner. McNab has served as the president of Sisters in Crime and is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America. She is a 2006 Medal Winner of the Alice B. Awards and was nominated for the 1996 Lammy Award Lesbian Mystery Award.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.[1] In addition to crime fiction, McNab has published children's novels, picture books, self-help, and English textbooks. She returns to Australia at least once a year to refresh her aussie accent. Works
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References1. ^{{citation |title=A Curious Woman |periodical=SX News |date=January 2006 |url=http://www.katrinafox.com/clairemcnab.htm |first=Katrina |last=Fox |accessdate=2007-08-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829071649/http://www.katrinafox.com/clairemcnab.htm |archivedate=29 August 2007 |df=dmy-all }}. External links
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