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Val McDermid was born on 4 June, 1955 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, is a Scottish author. Discover Val McDermid'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 68 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 4 June, 1955
Birthday 4 June
Birthplace Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Nationality Scottish

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1955

Valarie McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill, in a grim sub-genre known as Tartan Noir.

McDermid comes from a working-class family in Fife.

She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student to be admitted from a Scottish state school.

After graduation, she became a journalist and began her literary career as a dramatist.

1979

Her characters include a journalist, Lindsay Gordon; a private investigator, Kate Brannigan; a clinical psychologist, Tony Hill; DCI Karen Pirie working out of Fife, Scotland; and Allie Burns, an investigative reporter whose stories start in 1979 with a planned set of sequels a decade apart.

The Mermaids Singing, the first book in the Hill/Jordan series, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

The Hill/Jordan series has been adapted for television under the name Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green.

McDermid has stated that Jacko Vance, a TV celebrity with a secret lust for torture, murder and under-age girls, who was featured in the Wire in the Blood and two later books, is based on her direct personal experience of interviewing Jimmy Savile.

1987

Her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery occurred in 1987.

1994

The Northern Echo reported that Botham's actions were motivated by McDermid's 1994 non-fiction book A Suitable Job for a Woman, as Botham said the book contained a passage that besmirched her and her family.

McDermid formerly lived in both Stockport and near Alnmouth in Northumberland with three cats and a border terrier dog.

2000

McDermid was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 2000, and won the CWA Diamond Dagger for her lifetime contribution to crime writing in the English language in 2010.

2010

In 2010, McDermid received the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association for "outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing".

McDermid considers her work to be part of the "Tartan Noir" Scottish crime fiction genre.

In addition to writing novels, McDermid contributes to several British newspapers and often broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.

Her novels, in particular the Tony Hill series, are known for their graphic depictions of violence and torture.

In August 2022 McDermid reported that the estate of Agatha Christie had threatened her publishers with legal action if they referred to McDermid as "the Queen of Crime", stating that the term was copyrighted by the Christie estate.

McDermid was a lifelong fan of Raith Rovers football club, her father having worked as a scout for the club.

In 2010, she sponsored the McDermid Stand at Stark's Park, the club's ground in Kirkcaldy, in honour of her father.

In 2010, she was living between Northumberland and Manchester with publisher Kelly Smith, with whom she had entered into a civil partnership in 2006.

2011

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sunderland in 2011.

She is co-founder of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, part of the Harrogate International Festivals.

2012

On 6 December 2012 a woman poured ink over McDermid during an event at the University of Sunderland.

McDermid was signing books, and a woman asked her to autograph a Top of the Pops annual which contained a picture of the disgraced late TV presenter Jimmy Savile.

After McDermid reluctantly agreed the woman threw ink at her and ran out of the room.

McDermid said the incident would not stop her from doing signings.

Northumbria Police arrested Sandra Botham, a 64-year-old woman from the Hendon area of Sunderland, on suspicion of assault.

2013

Botham was convicted of common assault on 10 July 2013, received a 12-month community order with supervision and was made to pay £50 compensation and a £60 victim surcharge.

She was also given a restraining order forbidding her from contacting McDermid for an undefined period of time.

2014

A year after sponsoring the stand, she became a board member of the club, and starting in 2014 her website became Raith's shirt sponsor.

In February 2022, McDermid said she would be withdrawing her support and sponsorship from Raith Rovers after the club signed striker David Goodwillie, who had been ruled to have raped a woman and made to pay damages in a civil case in 2017.

Following the signing of Goodwillie, Raith Rovers women's team severed ties with the main club and renamed themselves McDermid Ladies, after the writer.

McDermid moved her sponsorship to the new ladies' team.

Since early 2014 she has lived in Stockport and Edinburgh.

2016

In 2016 she captained a team of St Hilda's alumnæ to win the Christmas University Challenge.

In 2016, McDermid captained a team of crime writer challengers on the TV quiz Eggheads, beating the Eggheads and winning £14,000.

On 23 October 2016 McDermid married her partner of two years, Jo Sharp, a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow.

McDermid is a radical feminist and socialist.

2017

In 2017, McDermid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

McDermid's works fall into five series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Inspector Karen Pirie, and Allie Burns.