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Robin Stevens
BornCalifornia, USA
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's fiction
Notable worksMurder Most Unladylike series
Website
https://robin-stevens.co.uk/

Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an award-winning British-American author of children's fiction, best known for writing the Murder Most Unladylike series.

Early life

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Stevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has dual US-UK citizenship.[1] She attended The Dragon School[2] and Cheltenham Ladies College.[1] Her father, Robert Stevens, was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford,[3] and her mother worked at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum.[4]

Stevens attended Warwick University and gained an MA in crime fiction.[1] She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge.[1]

Career

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Before becoming a full-time author, Stevens worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's book shop in Oxford,[5] and as an editor at Egmont.[6]

Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but didn't send it to agencies for two years.[7]

Stevens has cited the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work - particularly the authors Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers, collectively known as the Queens of Crime.[8]

Awards

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Year Award
2015 Oxfordshire Book Awards - Best Primary Novel, Murder Most Unladylike[2]
2015 Waterstones Children's Book Prize - Best Younger Fiction, Murder Most Unladylike[9]
2016 ALA Notable Children's Book, for Murder Most Unladylike (published as Murder is Bad Manners in the USA)[10]
2017 CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8–12), for Mistletoe and Murder[11]

Works

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Murder Most Unladylike series

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  • Murder Most Unladylike (2014)
  • Arsenic For Tea (2015)
  • First Class Murder (2015)
  • Jolly Foul Play (2016)
  • Mistletoe and Murder (2016)
  • Cream Buns and Crime (2017), a collection of short stories and non-fiction
  • A Spoonful of Murder (2018)

Standalone

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Contributor

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  • Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Robin Stevens". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b Stevens, Robin. "Murder Most Unladylike wins an Oxfordshire Book Award!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. ^ Stevens, Robin (2016). Mistletoe and Murder. London: Penguin. p. 351. ISBN 9780141369723. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ^ Stevens, Robin. "I Wish I'd Written: Robin Stevens". Books for Keeps. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  5. ^ Caldwell, Anne. "An Indies Introduce Q&A With Robin Stevens". BookWeb. American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  6. ^ Stevens, Robin. "The End of an Era - All Change for 2016!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ^ Eyre, Charlotte. "'There's something so compelling about murder'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  8. ^ Stevens, Robin (2017). Cream Buns and Crime. London: Penguin. pp. 79–85. ISBN 9780141376561. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  9. ^ "Rob Biddulph's 'Blown Away' wins the 2015 Waterstones Children's Book Prize". Waterstones Blog. Waterstones. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  10. ^ "2016 Notable Children's Books". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  11. ^ "2017 Awards: CrimeFest". CrimeFest. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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