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Denise Hamilton is an American crime novelist, journalist and editor of the Edgar award-winning anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics . Hamilton's fi...

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Denise Hamilton is an American crime novelist, journalist and editor of the Edgar award-winning anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. Hamilton's five Eve Diamond crime novels have been short-listed for many awards, including the Edgar Award in mystery, Willa Cather award in literary fiction and the UK's Creasey Dagger Award.

Career

Hamilton's novels draw on the city's history, politics, diversity, and culture,[1] and she calls her hometown of Los Angeles “The Ultimate Femme Fatale".[2] Her first novel, The Jasmine Trade, was a national bestseller that grew out of a Los Angeles Times story she wrote about parachute kids – wealthy Asian immigrant children who live alone in big homes while their parents remain in Asia taking care of family business. When Hamilton filed her story, a Times editor asked Hamilton's supervisor to check her facts because she found it hard to believe such an outlandish tale was real.[3]

Hamilton's sixth novel, The Last Embrace, was a 1940s Hollywood noir inspired by the disappearance of Jean Spangler, a starlet linked to L.A. gangster Mickey Cohen.[4]

Her seventh novel, Damage Control, was published by Scribner in September, 2011.[5]

Before turning to fiction, Hamilton was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, reporting on the city's sprawling multicultural suburbs. During this time, Hamilton also spent six months in former Yugoslavia on a Fulbright Fellowship and traveled widely in Eastern and Central Europe, and the former Soviet Union during the waning days of Communism, reporting on political, cultural, and economic trends.[6]

Las antologías de Los Angeles Noir ( Akashic Books ) se han traducido al francés, italiano y ruso. El primer volumen incluye 17 relatos ambientados en distintos barrios de Los Ángeles, escritos por autores como Michael Connelly , Janet Fitch , Patt Morrison , Susan Straight , Hector Tobar y otros. El segundo volumen de Los Angeles Noir: The Classics reimprime relatos de James M. Cain , Paul Cain , Raymond Chandler , James Ellroy , Ross Macdonald , Walter Mosley , la reina del género pulp negro Leigh Brackett y la esposa de Macdonald, Margaret Millar , y abarca el Los Ángeles de las décadas de 1930 a 1990.

Hamilton también escribe Uncommon Scents , una columna mensual sobre perfumes para Los Angeles Times.

Bibliografía

Serie Eve Diamond

  • El comercio del jazmín (2001)
  • Calavera de azúcar (2003)
  • La última nana (2004)
  • Jardín salvaje (2005)
  • Prisionero de la memoria (2006)

Independientes

  • El último abrazo (2008)
  • Control de daños (2011)

Editor

  • Antología de relatos cortos de cine negro ambientados en Los Ángeles
  • Los Ángeles Noir 2: Los Clásicos

Notas

  1. ↑ Entrevistadora: Karen Grigsby Bates (31 de marzo de 2004). "Los misterios de Los Ángeles de Denise Hamilton" . Day to Day . NPR .
  2. ↑ Olivas, Daniel (2010-04-06). "La elegante variación: Entrevista invitada: Denise Hamilton" . Recuperado el 2011-05-10 .
  3. ↑ Linn, Sara (2006-09-03). "Writing Outside the Box". Luis Obispo Tribune .
  4. ↑ Perry, Thomas (23 de julio de 2008). "Girl, Interrupted: Denise Hamilton's The Last Embrace" . LA Weekly . Consultado el 10 de mayo de 2011 .
  5. ↑ "Control de daños por Denise Hamilton" . Simon & Schuster . Consultado el 10 de mayo de 2011 .
  6. ↑ Cogdill, Oline (Primavera de 2006). "El poder de la prensa: Entrevista con Denise Hamilton" . Mystery Scene (94). ISSN 1087-674X . 
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