M. C. Beaton (1936–2019)
Autor de Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Sobre El Autor
M. C. Beaton's real name is Marion Chesney. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She started her writing career while working as a mostrar más fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow. Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Marion Chesney passed away on December 31, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Marion Chesney also writes under the pseudonyms of Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, M. C. Beaton, and Sarah Chester. More of her books are being reedited as Marion Chesney or M. C. Beaton.
Créditos de la imagen: M.C. Beaton by David Shankbone. 25 September 2006. New York City.
Series
Obras de M. C. Beaton
Death of a Gossip / Death of a Cad / Death of an Outsider / Death of a Perfect Wife (2012) 16 copias
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death / and the Vicious Vet / and the Potted Gardener (2004) 7 copias
Introducing Hamish Macbeth: Mysteries #1-3: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, and Death of an Outsider Omnibus (2016) 5 copias
The Royal Ambition Series: The Dreadful Debutante, The Savage Marquess, Miss Fiona's Fancy, The Viscount's Revenge, The… (2018) 3 copias
M. C. Beaton 2 copias
Hamish Macbeth Books 1-10 (Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, Death of an Outsider, Death of a Perfect Wife, Death of a… (2018) 2 copias
Hamish Macbeth Ten Books (Death of a Gentle Lady / Death of a Poison Pen / Death of a Village / Death of a Celebrity /… (2010) 2 copias
Agatha Raisin & the Quiche of Death; the Potted Gardner; the Walkers of Dembley; the Murderous Marriage; the Wellspring… (2000) 1 copia
Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery Collection (Death of a Nag, Death of a Macho Man, Death of a Dentist, Death of a… (2011) 1 copia
Dood van een hufter 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (2012) 246 copias
Agatha Raisin and the quiche of death : a mystery/comedy in two acts (2004) — Original author — 2 copias
Agatha Raisin, Series 1-3 — Original Books — 1 copia
Hamish Macbeth - Series 1 & 2 [Videorecording] — Original Books — 1 copia
Hamish MacBeth: The Big Freeze, Wee Jock's Lament and a Bit of an Epic — Original Books — 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Chesney Gibbons, Marion
- Otros nombres
- Fairfax, Ann (pseudonym)
Tremaine, Jennie (pseudonym)
Crampton, Helen (pseudonym)
Chesney, Marion (maiden name and pseudonym)
Ward, Charlotte (pseudonym)
Beaton, M. C. (pseudonym) (mostrar todos 7)
Chester, Sarah (pseudonym) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1936-06-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2019-12-30
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Cotswolds, England, UK
Paris, France - Ocupaciones
- buyer (for bookshop)
theater critic
reporter (newspaper)
editor
novelist - Relaciones
- Gibbons, Harry Scott (husband)
- Biografía breve
- Marion Chesney was a very prolific author, born in 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. She started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any knowledge of shorthand or typing. She quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She later moved to the Scottish Daily Express, where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. She married Harry Scott Gibbons, the paper's Middle East Correspondent and had a son, Charles. The family later moved to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia, where Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York. Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion began to write historical romances in 1977. Marion wrote over 100 of these historical romances under her maiden name Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. Finally becoming fed up with all eras from 1714 to 1910, she began to write contemporary detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. A trip to Sutherland on holiday and a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. The family later returned to Britain and bought a croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep and Charles went to school in London. When Charles finished school, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Marion Chesney also writes under the pseudonyms of Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, M. C. Beaton, and Sarah Chester. More of her books are being reedited as Marion Chesney or M. C. Beaton.
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