Alanna Knight (1923–2020)
Auteur de The Inspector's Daughter
A propos de l'auteur
Alanna Knight is the founding member of the Scottish Association of Writers.
Séries
Œuvres de Alanna Knight
Dead Man's Moon (Gothic Mysteries Book 2) 1 exemplaire
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasury 1 exemplaire
Faro and the Bogus Inspector 1 exemplaire
The Midnight Visitor 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Knight, Gladys Allan Cleet
- Autres noms
- Hope, Margaret (pen name)
- Date de naissance
- 1923-02-24
- Date de décès
- 2020-12-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Scotland
- Lieu de naissance
- Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
- Lieu du décès
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Professions
- Novelist
crime writer
memoirist
biographer
detective novelist
painter (tout afficher 9)
creative writing teacher
public speaker
historical novelist - Organisations
- Edinburgh Writers' Club
Scottish Association of Writers
Society of Authors
Crime Writers' Association - Prix et distinctions
- MBE
- Courte biographie
- Alanna Knight was born Gladys Allan Cleet in Jesmond, a suburb of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Her father was a master butcher. She left school at age 16 and trained as a secretary at a commercial college.
In 1951, she married Alistair Knight, a scientist, and lived in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he had a post at the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research. The couple had two sons. In 1963, her husband's work took the family to Beirut, Lebanon, for a six-month assignment. It was shortly after, in 1964, that Alanna Knight became paralyzed by polyneuritis (neuropathy). Her husband gave her an electric typewriter to help in her recovery, and by the time the paralysis ended five years later, she had written her first novel, Legend of the Loch (1969). Her literary career was launched, and she published another 61 books over the next 50 years, ranging from romantic and historical fiction to gothic suspense, true crime, memoirs, and biography. Some of her books appeared under the pen name Margaret Hope. Her best known series was the Inspector Jeremy Faro mysteries, set in 19th century Edinburgh. She also wrote a series about a time-traveling detective named Tam Eildor, and series about women detectives. Knight was honorary president of the Edinburgh Writers Club, a founder and honorary president of the Scottish Association of Writers, and an active member of the Crime Writers' Association. She taught creative writing and lectured on the topic from universities to Bloody Scotland, a literary convention. She was also a portrait and landscape painter. Knight was made a Member of the British Empire for services to literature in 2014.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 63
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 557
- Popularité
- #44,822
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 232
- Favoris
- 1
Before stumbling across Castle Clodha on the Internet Archive the other day, I had never heard of author Alanna Knight, who apparently lives in the Edinburgh area, and is particularly known for her mystery novels. I'm not sure why I decided to read it - perhaps because the cover reminded me of those old 70s Harlequin romances that used to crop up at our church rummage sales, when I was a girl? Perhaps because the book summary reminded me a bit of the gothic romances from authors like Mary Stewart, that I enjoyed as an adolescent? In any case, I did read it, and despite being well aware of its over the top melodrama, and seeing its big reveal almost from the beginning, I enjoyed it. May's perspective on the 'savagery' of Highland culture was somewhat odd - her reflections would lead one to believe that she had traveled to an utterly alien culture, where (unlike in England) men sometimes fight one another (the horror!) - and there was lots of that "mystical Scottish magic" stuff that was amusing in ways the author perhaps didn't intend. Still, if one get swallow all that, and if one likes the genre of gothic mystery-romance, it's an entertaining way to spend an hour or two.… (plus d'informations)