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Nancy Springer
Nancy Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery and science fiction. She has won many awards for her work including the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Most recently Nancy's book The Case of the Missing Marquess has been adapted into a Netflix film as Enola Holmes. Nancy's books are available through Suffolk Libraries.
Who were your literary influences as you were growing up and when did you first feel that you wanted to write?
I was omnivorous. I read the good, the bad and the ugly. Entering college, I was impressed by Steinbeck, Harper Lee, C.S. Lewis, many others. Like most girls of my generation, I had vague aspirations at best. My parents expected me to be a teacher; I knew I didn't want that but had no idea what I would do.
Enola's brand of kick ass feminism is completely in step with society today. When you wrote The Case of the Missing Marquess in 2006 it must have been a very different world for her to appear in?
I didn't write it in 2006. It was published then. I figure I start
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Nancy Springer
Goodreads Author
Born
in Montclair, New Jersey, The United StatesWebsite
http://www.nancyspringer.com/
NancySpringer
Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult
Member Since
April 2012
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BIO -- NANCY SPRINGER
Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery -- although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding
BIO -- NANCY SPRINGER
Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milest
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Nancy Springer
American fiction author (born 1948)
Nancy Springer (born July 5, 1948) is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction.[1] Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award in 1994.[2] She also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America[3] for her novels Toughing It in 1995 and Looking for Jamie Bridger in 1996. Additionally, she received the Carolyn W. Field Award from the Pennsylvania Library Association in 1999 for her novel I am Mordred.[4] She has written more than fifty books over a career that has spanned nearly four decades.[5]
She released her first Enola Holmes book in 2006 and followed by 7 sequels in the series. Her other series include The Book of the Isle fantasy series and the Tales of Rowan Hood.[6]The Enola Holmes Mysteries was adapted in 2020 as the Netflix film Enola Holmes and a 2022 sequel Enola Holmes 2.[5][7]
Life and career
Nancy Springer was born in Montclair, New Jersey
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