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Jan Burke is an author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Bio

Burke was born 1 August 1953 in Houston, Texas,^[1] but has lived in Southern California most of her life. She comes from a close-knit family, and remains close to her parents, two sisters and a brother. Burke's husband is musician Tim Burke, whose bands include Downtight.^[2] She attended California State University, Long Beach, and graduated with a degree in history.

She worked as a researcher on an oral history project interviewing "Rosie the Riveters." Later she became the manager of a manufacturing plant for a large corporation.

She completed her first novel, Goodnight, Irene in the evenings after work. It was sold unagented and unsolicited to Simon & Schuster. She received a surprising boost from a new fan when, during his first White House interview after taking office, President Bill Clinton said he was reading Goodnight, Irene.

Novels

Other novels

Contributions

Burke edited the first edition of Breaking and Entering,^[3] a Sisters in Crime's guide to getting

published. She served as an Associate Editor on Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America,^[4] edited by Sue Grafton. She is a longtime

member of Sisters in Crime and has served on the national boards of Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League.

Burke is the founder and director of the Crime Lab Project, an organization working to raise awareness of the problems facing crime labs and the need to obtain better funding for forensic science. She is a past president of the Southern California Chapter of Mystery Writers of America (MWA) and has served on MWA's National Board.

Burke's collection of short stories, Bones, appears in the television series Bones: Season 1, Ep. 17 - The Skull in the Desert. It is used as a prop on a table at minute 15:05.

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^page 33, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, {{ISBN|0-313-33428-5}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.downtight.com/ |title=Down Tight |publisher=Down Tight |date= |accessdate=2012-02-21}}
3. ^{{cite news|url = http://www.mysteryreaders.org/athomeburke.html|title = Inside The Cover Book Reviews|accessdate = 2006-08-24|publisher = Mysteryreaders.com}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/writing_mysteries.htm |title=Jan Burke, interviewed by T. Jefferson Parker |accessdate=2006-08-24 |publisher=Absolutewrite.com |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060824000349/http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/writing_mysteries.htm |archivedate=2006-08-24 |df= }}
5. ^{{cite news|url = http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv50.html|title = Edgar Award Winners and Nominees|accessdate = 2006-08-30|publisher = ThrillingDetective.com}}
6. ^¹{{cite news |url=http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathapast.htm |title=Past Award Winners & Nominees |accessdate=2006-08-24 |publisher=Malice Domestic Ltd |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810123656/http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathapast.htm |archivedate=2006-08-10 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
7. ^{{cite news|url = http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html|title = Macavity Award Winners & Nominees|accessdate = 2006-08-24|publisher = Mystery Readers Interlational}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.deadlypleasures.com/Barry.htm |title=The Barry Awards |accessdate=2006-08-30 |publisher=DeadlyPleasures.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820105130/http://www.deadlypleasures.com/Barry.htm |archivedate=2006-08-20 |deadurl=yes |df= }}

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