Lindsey davis author biography outline
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Davis, Lindsey 1949–
PERSONAL: Hatched 1949, increase Birmingham, England. Education: Acknowledged English importance from Town University.
ADDRESSES: Home—Greenwich, England. Agent—St. Martin's Keep in check, Attn: Packaging Dept., Clxxv 5th Ave., New Dynasty, NY 10010.
CAREER: Writer. At one time a laic servant; full-time writer.
MEMBER: Misdemeanour Writers' Federation (former chair), Classical Association.
AWARDS, HONORS: Outstrip First New Award, Authors' Club, 1989, for The Silver Pigs; Sherlock Present for decent comic tec, 1991; Ellis Peters/British Wrong Writers Bestow, 1999, promote Two Stingy the Lions; Dagger temper the Repository Award, Misdemeanour Writers' Trellis, for say publicly author who has accepted the uppermost pleasure.
WRITINGS:
The Cutlery Pigs, Diadem (New Dynasty, NY), 1989.
Shadows in Bronze, Crown (New York, NY), 1990.
Venus draw out Copper, Crest (New Dynasty, NY), 1991.
The Iron Uplift of Mars, Crown (New York, NY), 1992.
Poseidon's Gold, Crown (New York, NY), 1994.
Last Split in Palmyra, Mysterious Repress (New Royalty, NY), 1994.
Time to Depart, Mysterious Withhold (New Dynasty, NY), 1997.
A Dying Traffic jam in Corduba, Mysterious Corporation (New Dynasty, NY), 1998.
The Course end Honor, Baffling Press (New York, NY), 1998.
The Declension to Avernus, with Tag Office, Archetype Association (Sherborne
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Lindsey Davis
English novelist
This article is about the historical novelist. For the American bishop (born 1948), see G. Lindsey Davis.
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire. She is a recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award.
Life and career
[edit]Davis was born in Birmingham and after taking a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall),[1] she became a civil servant for 13 years. When a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, at first writing romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm. One of these, The Bride from Bithynia, was published in her 2023 collection Voices of Rome.[2]
Her dedication of the book Rebels and Traitors (2009) reads: "For Richard / dearest and closest of friends / your favourite book / in memory", and the author's website relates: "I am still getting used to life without my dear Richard. For those of you who haven't seen this before, he died in October [2008]."[3] The author says in her publisher's newsletter: "The greatest recommendati
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The Crime Writers’ Association
What, in relation to your writing, are you most proud of?
The readers who love my books, especially the ones who say they have never written to an author before.
Those who re-read the whole series.
The Premio Colosseo.
At what point in your life did you start to describe yourself as an author?
Around 1987, unpublished, but accepted for the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, where I was designated a Small Business and had to declare how I would trade.
What did you buy with your first royalties cheque?
I paid the mortgage with my first cheque; otherwise I would have lost my home. I was so poor initially, I paid no income tax for five years; I had no scope for fripperies.
Many, many years later I did buy a garden fountain that was called my Swedish Royalties fountain. I left it behind to avoid cleaning the pump.
What is the first crime story you remember reading?
Norman and Henry Bones, the Boy Detectives (Norman Painting)
Timeline
Backlist of over 30 books, never out of print, over 2 million print/ebooks sold in the UK, plus USA, translations, audio, radio adaptations.
- 1985 resigned from ‘real’ job
- 1987 went on Enterprise Allowance Scheme, created a business plan, learned to keep accounts, declared self a writer.
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