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Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American author of detective fiction. ==Life and career== Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman, Jr., a well known and respected writer at the ''Baltimore Sun'', and Madeline (Mabry) Lippman, a retired school librarian for the Baltimore City Public School System. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish, and the remainder of her ancestry includes Scots-Irish. Lippman was raised Presbyterian. She attended high school in Columbia, Maryland, where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School ''It's Academic'' team. She also participated in several dramatic productions, including Finian's Rainbow, The Lark, and Barefoot in the Park. She was graduated from Wilde Lake High School in 1977. Lippman is a former reporter for the (now defunct) ''San Antonio Light'' and the ''Baltimore Sun''. She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Monaghan, a reporter (like Lippman herself) turned private investigator. Lippman's works have won the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, Nero, Gumshoe and Shamus awards. Her 2007 release, ''What the Dead Know'', was the first of her books to make the New York Times bestseller list, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Dagger Award (see side box for more awards). In addition to the Tess Monaghan novels, Lippman wrote 2003's ''Every Secret Thing'', which has been optioned for the movie by Academy Award–winning actor Frances McDormand. Lippman lives in the South Baltimore neighborhood of Federal Hill and frequently writes in the neighborhood coffee shop Spoons. In addition to writing, she teaches at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore. In January, 2007, she taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College. In March 2013, she was the Guest of Honor at Left Coast Crime. Lippman is married to David Simon, another former ''Baltimore Sun'' reporter, and creator and an executive producer of the HBO series ''The Wire.'' The character Bunk is shown to be reading one of her books in episode eight of the first season of ''The Wire.'' She appeared in a scene of the first episode of the last season of ''The Wire'' as a reporter working in the ''Baltimore Sun'' newsroom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Lippman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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