New Orleans Noir (26 page)
T
HOMAS
A
DCOCK
is an Edgar Award–winning author of six novels, including
Thrown-Away Child
, set in New Orleans. He is a reporter for the
New York Law Journal.
Twenty-five years ago, thanks to marrying the New Orleans–born actress Kim Sykes, the Crescent City became his second home.
A
CE
A
TKINS
covered the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast for
Outside Magazine
. The Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist is also the author of four crime novels based in and around the city. He lives and writes in Oxford, Mississippi.
P
ATTY
F
RIEDMANN
has lived in New Orleans all her life, except for slight interruptions for education and natural disasters. Her darkly comic novels include
Eleanor Rushing, Secondhand Smoke,
and
A Little Bit Ruined.
Her works have been selections of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and Borders Original Voices, and Book Sense 76 picks.
D
AVID
F
ULMER’S
Chasing the Devil’s Tail,
a mystery set in turn-of-the-century Storyville, New Orleans, won a Shamus Award and was a finalist for a
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize, a Barry Award, and a Falcon Award. His Storyville novels
Jass
and
Rampart Street
have drawn high praise. He lives in Atlanta with his daughter Italia.
B
ARBARA
H
AMBLY
was born in San Diego, California, and originally trained as an academic historian. She lived part-time in New Orleans for three years while married to science fiction writer George Alec Effinger; she now lives in Los Angeles.
G
REG
H
ERREN
is the author of six mystery novels set in New Orleans, including
Mardi Gras Mambo
and
Murder in the Rue Chartres
(forthcoming). He lives in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans and refuses to relocate. Ever.
L
AURA
L
IPPMAN
, a Baltimore-based writer best known for her award-winning Tess Monaghan novels, believes New Orleans is the only other city where she could be happy for more than a few days, preferably December through March.
T
IM
M
CLOUGHLIN
is the editor of the multiple award–winning anthology
Brooklyn Noir.
His novel,
Heart of the Old Country,
was a selection of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and won Italy’s Premio Penne award. He was married in St. Mary’s Chapel on Jackson Avenue in the Garden District.
J
AMES
N
OLAN
, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, is a widely published poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. His collections of poetry are
Why I Live in the Forest
and
What Moves Is Not the Wind
, both from Wesleyan University Press. He is a regular contributor to
Boulevard
, and recent stories have come out in
Shenandoah
, the
Southern Review,
and the
Chattahoochee Review
. He lives in the French Quarter, and currently directs the Loyola Writing Institute at Loyola University.
T
ED
O
’BRIEN
moved, somewhat arbitrarily, from South Florida to New Orleans in 2000. He signed on as a bookseller and continues, post-Katrina, to live and work in the Garden District.
