书单Joan Lowery Nixon
- 生卒
- 1927 – 2003
- 国籍
- 美国
生平与创作
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Joan Lowery Nixon (February 3, 1927 – June 28, 2003) was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.
Biography
Joan Lowery was born on February 3, 1927, in Los Angeles, California. In 1947, she received a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. At USC, she met her husband, Hershell, a United States Navy officer and a geologist. At USC she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. She taught school in Los Angeles before starting her family. In 1964 her first book for children, The Mystery of Hurricane Castle, was published. Her son, Joe Nixon, is a Houston lawyer, who was from 1995 to 2007 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 133 in Houston. Nixon, her husband, and their children lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, before finally settling in the Memorial and Tanglewood area of Houston, Texas. She died of pancreatic cancer in Houston on June 28, 2003.
Work
Nixon wrote more than 140 books, including The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore (1979). She co-authored several science books with her geologist husband Hershell Nixon.
Nixon was the only author to win four Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and had five additional nominations. She won the California Young Reader Medal of the California Library Association twice. She also won the Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Award twice, and received the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Her book Land of Hope is used in some middle schools.
Her novel The Other Side of Dark was made into the 1995 TV movie Awake To Danger, starring Tori Spelling and Michael Gross.
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资料卡
- 出生
- 1927 年 2 月 3 日
- 出生地
- 洛杉矶
- 逝世
- 2003 年 6 月 28 日
- 逝世地
- 休斯敦
- 职业
- 作家、新闻工作者、儿童文学作家、小说家
- 使用语言
- 英语
- 就读学校
- 南加州大学安那伯格传播与新闻学院
- 获奖
- 爱伦·坡奖（1975）
资料卡来自 Wikidata Q6205240（CC0），众包数据，个别字段可能不全。
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作品年表（32 本）
本站书库里署名Joan Lowery Nixon的书（Open Library 上至少 10 人加过书架的才收），按首版年份排（有本站书页的用 Wikidata 记的首版年，其余用 Open Library 的）；年份偶尔记成后来的版本或译本，以原书为准。全部作品见 Open Library。
- 1979The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore书架 40
- 1979The halloween mystery书架 14
- 1980The Seance书架 35
- 1983A DEADLY GAME OF MAGIC书架 27
- 1984The ghosts of now书架 10
- 1985The House on Hackman's Hill书架 100
- 1985The Stalker书架 12
- 1986The Other Side of Dark书架 46
- 1987A Family Apart书架 36
- 1987The Dark and Deadly Pool书架 19
- 1987Haunted Island书架 18
- 1988Secret, Silent Screams书架 17
- 1988In the Face of Danger书架 13
- 1988If you were a writer书架 10
- 1989Whispers From the Dead书架 23
- 1989Star baby书架 11
- 1989A Place to Belong书架 10
- 1992The Weekend Was Murder!书架 17
- 1992A Deadly Promise书架 16
- 1992Land of Hope书架 13
- 1993The name of the game was murder书架 16
- 1994Shadowmaker书架 10
- 1995Spirit Seeker书架 13
- 1996Don't Scream书架 11
- 1997Murdered, My Sweet书架 18
- 1998The Haunting书架 14
- 1999Who are you?书架 14
- 2000Ann's Story书架 13
- 2000Caesar's Story书架 11
- 2000Nobody's There书架 10
- 2002The Trap书架 10
- 2003Nightmare书架 27