Featured Writers

Featured Author: Deborah Woodworth

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~woodw007/

Nationally acclaimed mystery writer Deborah Woodworth is the author of the
five-volume Shaker Mystery series (with the sixth book, "The Dancing Dead," to be released in March of 2002) and the creator of its beloved detective, Sister Rose Callahan. "Publisher's Weekly" called the series "First-rate;
warmhearted, richly detailed, and completely enthralling," and her work has
also received glowing reviews in "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine," The
Denver Post, "The Historical Novels Review," The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner, and The St. Paul Pioneer Press, among many others. In her writing, Ms. Woodworth has used her academic background (she has a doctorate in the sociology of religion) and research skills to bring her stories to life, and to provide a vivid look into the fascinating history, theology, and lifestyle of rural Kentucky's Shaker community.  One real-life Shaker indicated to Ms. Woodworth that "the Shakers feel about the Sister Rose books the way the Benedictines feel about Brother Cadfael--they can't wait for the next one."  Ms. Woodworth is published by Harper Collins Publishers, and her Editor is Patricia Lande Grader, Executive Editor, Morrow/Avon. Ms. Woodworth lives and writes in New Brighton, Minnesota. You may visit her website at http://www.tc.umn.edu/~woodw007/.