Robin Stevens (author)

Robin Stevens
Born (1988-01-15) 15 January 1988 (age 36)
California, United States
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's fiction
Notable worksMurder Most Unladylike series
Website
robin-stevens.co.uk

Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an American-born English author of children's fiction, best known for her Murder Most Unladylike series. She has spoken of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work.

Early life

Stevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has dual US and 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] Her grandfather was the literary critic Wayne C. Booth.[5]

Stevens studied English at the University of Warwick, later gaining an MA in crime fiction from King's College London.[5] She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge.[1]

Career

Before becoming a full-time author, Stevens worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford,[6] and as an editor at Egmont.[7]

Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but did not send it to agencies for two years.[8]

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.[9]

In November 2020 she announced that she was to have a new book out in August 2021, called Once Upon a Crime.[10] She also announced that there would be a new book (the first of a new series), coming out in 2022. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity will star Hazel Wong's (read below) little sister and two other characters, Eric and Nuala. This new series is set during World War II.

Murder Most Unladylike

Stevens's eleven book series Murder Most Unladylike consists of schoolgirl detectives, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells, as they solve murders, as well as personal things. Hazel falls in love with American boy Alexander Arcady.

The series is set in the 1930s, sparking the Golden Age references. It also focuses on period-typical racism.

Awards

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[11]
2016 ALA Notable Children's Book, for Murder Most Unladylike (published as Murder is Bad Manners in the USA)[12]
2017 CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children (ages 8–12), for Mistletoe and Murder[13]

Works

Series

  • The Murder Most Unladylike Series
    • Murder Most Unladylike (2014)
    • Arsenic For Tea (2014)
    • First Class Murder (2015)
    • Jolly Foul Play (2016)
    • Mistletoe and Murder (2016)
    • Cream Buns and Crime: Tips, tricks and tales from the Detective Society (2017)
    • A Spoonful of Murder (2018)
    • Death in the Spotlight (2018)
    • Top Marks for Murder (2019)
    • The Case of the Drowned Pearl (2020)
    • Death Sets Sail (2020)
    • Once Upon a Crime (2021)

Standalone

Contributor

  • Mystery and Mayhem: Twelve Deliciously Intriguing Mysteries (2016)
  • Return to Wonderland: Stories Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice (2019)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Robin Stevens". Robin Stevens Official Website. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b Stevens, Robin (24 March 2015). "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.
  4. ^ Stevens, Robin. "I Wish I'd Written: Robin Stevens". Books for Keeps. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  5. ^ a b Stevens, Robin. "Tweet, 16 Jan 2018". Twitter. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  6. ^ Caldwell, Anne (6 May 2015). "An Indies Introduce Q&A With Robin Stevens". BookWeb. American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ^ Stevens, Robin (13 November 2015). "The End of an Era – All Change for 2016!". Robin Stevens Official Website. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  8. ^ Eyre, Charlotte. "'There's something so compelling about murder'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  9. ^ Stevens, Robin (2017). Cream Buns and Crime. London: Penguin. pp. 79–85. ISBN 9780141376561.
  10. ^ "November 2020 - Once Upon a Crime Announcement! - YouTube". www.youtube.com. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Rob Biddulph's 'Blown Away' wins the 2015 Waterstones Children's Book Prize". Waterstones Blog. Waterstones. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  12. ^ "2016 Notable Children's Books". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  13. ^ "2017 Awards: CrimeFest". CrimeFest. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

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