Kathryn Lilley
Kathryn Lilley | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 22, 1956 Washington, D.C. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Subject | Mystery |
Kathryn Ellen Lilley (born April 22, 1956) is an American author and former broadcast journalist.
Early life[edit]
Lilley was born in Washington, DC, the daughter of Arthur Edward Lilley, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University, and Margaret Evelyn McPherson Ezell, a retired corporate librarian. She was raised initially in Connecticut and South Carolina, and then transferred to a high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley College as a Wellesley Scholar and she later graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Author[edit]
Lilley writes an adult mystery series called The Fat City Mysteries, featuring investigative journalist Kate Gallagher, a plus-sized TV reporter who is constantly fighting a weight problem that threatens her on-camera career. The Fat City Mysteries are published by Signet/Obsidian, a division of NAL/Penguin Group.[1] The first book in the series, Dying To Be Thin, published in 2007, was an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) bestseller for October, 2007.[2] Other books in the series are A Killer Workout (2008), and Makeovers Can Be Murder (2009). From 2008-2010, she served as a member of the board of directors of the Southern California Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.[3] Lilley is founder and administrator of the Kill Zone blog, a blog by suspense writers and publishers.[4]
Lilley began her career working as a television reporter at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina and then shifted to writing fiction. She wrote four young adult mysteries as a contract writer for the Nancy Drew series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
She lives in Manhattan Beach, California.
References[edit]
- ^ "Kathryn Lilley | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ^ "IMBA bestseller for October, 2007".
- ^ "Southern California Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America". Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
- ^ "About TKZ | Killzoneblog.com". killzoneblog.com. Retrieved 2022-07-13.