Faye Kellerman
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Born in St. Louis, USA in 1952, Faye Kellerman is the author of the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" crime novel series, as well as three non-series books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music and Straight into Darkness.
She attended UCLA where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theoretical Mathematics in 1974. Four years later she received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree. At that time she "fully intended to pursue a career as a dentist". Despite her intention, she has never practiced dentistry and was a full-time mother before publishing her first novel. In a 1997 essay she says she can't pinpoint the metamorphosis from oral hygienist to writer of detective fiction, but several factors that steered her toward mystery writing were: "a desire for justice, a suspicious nature, an overactive imagination, and, or course, a penchant for the bizarre."[1]
Her writing frequently deals with Jewish themes and characters, incorporating them into the framework of the traditional mystery. Kellerman is a practicing Orthodox Jew, as is her husband, the novelist Jonathan Kellerman.
The only married couple ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously (for two different books), they have four children and live in Los Angeles.
[edit] References and sources
- ^ Kellerman, Faye, essay in Small Miracles: Extraordinary Coincidences from Everyday Life, Adams Media Corporation, 1997, ISBN 1-55850-646-2.
