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Minette Walters (Minette Caroline Mary Jebb) was born on 26 September, 1949 in Bishop's Stortford, England, is an English crime writer. Discover Minette Walters'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 75 years old?

Popular As Minette Caroline Mary Jebb
Occupation Novelist, writer
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 26 September, 1949
Birthday 26 September
Birthplace Bishop's Stortford, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Minette Walters's Husband?

Her husband is Alec Walters (m. 1978)

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Children Philip Walters, Roland Walters

Minette Walters Net Worth

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Timeline

1908

The novella is based on the 1908 murder of Caroline Luard.

Walters' first five books were adapted for television by the BBC and her eighth book, Acid Row, is currently under option with Company Pictures.

1949

Minette Caroline Mary Walters DL (born 26 September 1949) is an English crime writer.

Walters was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1949 to Samuel Jebb and Colleen Jebb.

As her father was a serving army officer, the first 10 years of Walters's life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England.

1960

Her father died from kidney failure in 1960.

While raising Walters and her two brothers, Colleen Jebb painted miniatures from photographs to supplement the family's income.

Walters spent a year at the Abbey School in Reading, Berkshire, before winning a Foundation Scholarship at the Godolphin boarding school in Salisbury.

1968

During a gap year between school and Durham University, 1968, Walters volunteered in Israel with The Bridge in Britain, working on a kibbutz and in a delinquent boys' home in Jerusalem.

1971

She graduated from Trevelyan College, Durham in 1971 with a BA in French.

1972

Walters joined IPC Magazines as a sub-editor in 1972 and became an editor of Woman's Weekly Library the following year.

She supplemented her salary by writing romantic novelettes, short stories, and serials in her spare time.

The romantic novelettes were written in approximately two weeks and published under a pseudonym that remains a secret.

1977

Walters turned freelance in 1977 but continued to write for magazines to cover her bills.

1978

Minette met her husband Alec Walters while she was at Durham and they married in 1978.

They have two sons, Roland and Philip.

1992

Her first full-length novel, The Ice House, was published in 1992.

It took two and a half years to write and was rejected by numerous publishing houses until Maria Rejt, Macmillan Publishers, bought it for £1250.

Within four months, it had won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey award for best first novel and had been snapped up by 11 foreign publishers.

Walters was the first crime/thriller writer to win three major prizes with her first three books.

Walters's second novel, The Sculptress, which was inspired in part by an encounter Walters had as a volunteer prison visitor, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

Walters's third novel, The Scold's Bridle, then won the CWA Gold Dagger, giving her a unique treble.

Walters's themes include isolation, family dysfunction, rejection, marginalisation, justice and revenge.

Her novels are often set against real backgrounds and real events to draw her readers into the 'reality' of what she is writing about.

With no series character tying her to particular people, places or times, she moves freely around settings – a sink estate (Acid Row), a Dorset village (Fox Evil), a suburb of London (The Shape of Snakes) – although every setting is 'claustrophobic' to encourage the characters 'to turn on each other'.

Walters describes herself as an exploratory writer who never uses a plot scheme, begins with simple premises, has no idea 'whodunit' until halfway through a story, but who remains excited about each novel because she, along with her reader, wants to know what happens next.

As part of the British project 'Quick Reads', to encourage literacy amongst adults with reading difficulties, Walters wrote a 20,000-word novella called Chickenfeed.

In competition with works by other best-selling authors, such as Ruth Rendell, Maeve Binchy and Joanna Trollope, Chickenfeed has won two awards as the best novella in the 'Quick Reads' genre.

It has also been translated into several languages.

1999

In addition to full-length novels, Walters has written feature articles for magazines and the broadsheets, some short stories including "English Autumn, American Fall", and five novellas, including The Tinder Box (1999) and Chickenfeed (2006).

2006

The latter was published for World Book Day 2006 as part of the 'Quick Reads' initiative.

2007

In September 2007, Walters released her fourteenth book, The Chameleon's Shadow, in the UK.

2008

On 3–7 March 2008, BBC2 aired Murder Most Famous, a five-part TV talent contest series, in which Walters tutors and judges six competing celebrity writers, with the winner having his or her crime fiction novel published by Pan Macmillan on World Book Day 2009.

2009

The series was won by the actress Sherrie Hewson, whose debut novel The Tannery was published in March 2009.

After a pause of 10 years in which she wrote two novellas, Walters has decided to write historical novels.

The first of these novels is The Last Hours, set during the Black Death, followed by a sequel, The Turn of Midnight.

2013

Minette has written another entry in the Quick Reads series entitled A Dreadful Murder for World Book Day 2013.

2019

In 2019 Walters was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.