Megan Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of six novels, including Queenpin, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything (one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of 2011), and Dare Me, which was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2012 by Amazon and Entertainment Weekly. The book has just been optioned for film, with a screenplay by Abbott. Her novels have been praised by writers including Tom Perrotta, Laura Lippman, Kate Atkinson, and Nick Hornby.
Abbott’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and the Believer. She is the author of The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir and editor of A Hell of a Woman, a female crime fiction anthology. She has been nominated for awards including the Steel Dagger, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pushcart Prize. She is the 2013-2014 John Grisham Writer-in Residence at Ole Miss. Her upcoming novel, The Fever, will come out in 2013.
Online Resources
meganabbott.com
on Twitter @meganeabbott
on Facebook
NYTimes review of ‘Dare Me’
Abbott on the cheerleader icon that inspired ‘Dare Me‘
Selected Bibliography
Dare Me (2012)
The End of Everything (2011)
Bury Me Deep (2009)
Queenpin (2007)
The Song is You (2007)
Die A Little (2005)
