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Megan Abbott was born on 21 August, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., is an American writer (born 1971). Discover Megan Abbott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

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Occupation Author, screenwriter, journalist
Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 21 August, 1971
Birthday 21 August
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Joshua Gaylord (m. 1998–2011)

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1930

Growing up, Abbott was greatly intrigued by the 1930 and 1940s movies she saw at a movie theater in Grosse Pointe.

She believes that watching these films as a child gave her her lifelong interest in crime fiction.

Abbott graduated from the University of Michigan.

She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University, and has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University.

1971

Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction.

Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective.

She is also an American writer and producer of television.

2002

In 2002, Abbott published her first book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, which The Paris Review described as "a prescient work of critical theory."

In it, Abbott challenges the archetypes of the "tough guy" and "femme fatale" common to noir literature.

Three years later, Abbott published Die a Little, the first of several novels presenting woman-centered takes on traditional noir tropes.

Set in midcentury Los Angeles, the story centered on Lora King, a schoolteacher whose brother Bill falls in love with Alice Steele, a former costumer for the film industry.

Suspicious of Alice's motives and jealous of her hold over Bill, Lora sets out to investigate Alice's background, only to find herself pulled into the dark side of Hollywood.

Kirkus Reviews reviewed the book favorably.

In addition to literature, Abbott has written for major journals and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times.

She also writes a blog with novelist Sara Gran.

2007

The Song Is You (2007) is based around the disappearance of Jean Spangler in 1949, and Bury Me Deep (2009) on the 1931 case of Winnie Ruth Judd, dubbed "the Trunk Murderess".

Abbott has won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for outstanding fiction.

2011

Time named her one of the "23 Authors That We Admire" in 2011.

Publishers Weekly gave her 2011 novel The End of Everything a starred review.

2013

In 2013 and 2014, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

2017

Abbott was a screenwriter for The Deuce, an HBO show that premiered in 2017 and deals with pornography and the Mafia in New York in the 1970s and beyond.

2019

In 2019, she adapted her bestselling novel Dare Me into a TV series on USA Network.

She served as co-showrunner on the series, along with Gina Fattore.

Abbott was influenced by film noir, classic noir fiction, and Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Virgin Suicides.

Two of her novels make reference to notorious crimes.