Thomas H. Cook
Cook (born September 19, 1947) is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Thomas H. Cook
- Name
- Thomas H.
- Born
- 19 September 1947
- Birthplace
- Fort Payne, Alabama, U.S.
- Occupation
- Author
- Education
- Georgia State College Hunter College Columbia University (MPhil)
- Awards
- Edgar Award, Barry Award, Duncan Lawrie Dagger, Anthony Award, Martin Beck Award
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel · Barry Award for Best Novel
- Languages
- English
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Cook (born September 19, 1947) is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Thomas H. Cook (born 1947) is an editor, novelist and teacher, among other activities, of American nationality. The editor was born in Fort Payne. Thomas H. Cook was educated at Columbia University, Hunter College and Savannah State University.
Languages used include English. Honours include Barry Award for Best Novel and Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
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• Name — Thomas H. Cook • Born — 19 September 1947 • Birthplace — Fort Payne, Alabama, U.S. • Occupation — Author • Education — Georgia State College Hunter College Columbia University (MPhil) • Notable Works — The Chatham School Affair, Red Leaves • Awards — Edgar Award, Barry Award, Duncan Lawrie Dagger, Anthony Award, Martin Beck Award
Biography
Biography
Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and holds a bachelor's degree from Georgia State College, a master's degree in American history from Hunter College, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. From 1978 to 1981, Cook taught English and History at Dekalb Community College in Georgia, and served as book review editor for Atlanta magazine from 1978 to 1982, when he took up writing full-time. Cook began his first novel, Blood Innocents, while he was still in graduate school. It was published in 1980, and he has published steadily since then. A film version of one of his books, Evidence of Blood, was released in 1997. Eight of his works have been nominated for awards, including Red Leaves in 2006, which was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award, and went on to win the Barry Award and the Martin Beck Award. Cook lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City and Los Angeles.
Publications
• Blood Innocents (Playboy, 1980) • The Orchids (Houghton Mifflin, 1982). • Tabernacle (Houghton Mifflin, 1983). • Elena (Houghton Mifflin, 1986). • Sacrificial Ground (Putnam, 1988). • Flesh and Blood (Putnam, 1989). • Streets of Fire (Putnam, 1989). • Early Graves (Dutton, 1990). • Night Secrets (Putnam, 1990). • The City When It Rains (Putnam, 1991). • Evidence of Blood (Putnam, 1991). • Blood Echoes (Dutton, 1992). • Mortal Memory (Putnam, 1993). • Breakheart Hill (Bantam, 1995). • The Chatham School Affair (Bantam, 1996). • Instruments of Night (Bantam, 1998). • Places in the Dark (Bantam, 2000). • The Interrogation (Bantam, 2002). • Taken: A Novelization (Dell, 2002). • Moon Over Manhattan, with Larry King, (New Millennium Press, 2003). • Peril (Bantam, 2004). • Into the Web (Bantam, 2004). • Red Leaves (Harcourt, 2005). • The Murmur of Stones (Quercus, 2006) (published in the US as The Cloud of Unknowing, Harcourt, 2007). • Master of the Delta (Harcourt, 2008). • The Best American Crime Reporting 2008, (with Jonathan Kellerman and Otto Penzler), (Harper Perennial, 2008). • The Fate of Katherine Carr (2009). • The Last Talk with Lola Faye (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). • The Quest for Anna Klein (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). • The Crime of Julian Wells (Mysterious Press, 2012). • Sandrine's Case (Mysterious Press, 2013). • Fatherhood and Other Stories (Pegasus Press, 2013). • A Dancer in the Dust (Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, 2015), • Even Darkness Sings (Pegasus Press, 2018).
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Awards and honors
Awards for Cook's writing • Year — Title — Award — Result — References • 1981 — Blood Innocents — Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original — Finalist • 1989 — Sacrificial Ground — Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel — Finalist • 1995 — Breakheart Hill — Hammett Prize — Finalist • 1997 — Barry Award for Best Novel — Finalist • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel — Winner • Macavity Award for Best Novel — Finalist • 2001 — Places in the Dark — Barry Award for Best Novel — Finalist • 2005 — Into the Web — Barry Award for Best Paperback Original — Finalist • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original — Finalist • 2006 — Red Leaves — Anthony Award for Best Novel — Finalist • Barry Award for Best Novel — Winner • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel — Finalist • Gold Dagger — Finalist • 2014 — Sandrine’s Case — Barry Award for Best Novel — Finalist • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel — Finalist • Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel — Finalist
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- 1.MSN Encarta Encyclopedia: The Chatham School Affair.
- 2.This Goodly Land.
- 3.Evidence of Blood (1998).
- 4.Thomas H. Cook. Stop, You're Killing Me!.
- 5.Awards: Forward; Bouchercon. Shelf Awareness. 2006-10-05.
- 6.The 2014 Edgar Award Nominations and Winners. Heights Libraries.
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