Faye Kellerman | |
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| Born | (1952-07-31)July 31, 1952 (age 73) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Education | Doctor of Dental Surgery |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Notable works | Peter Decker andRina Lazarus novels |
| Spouse | Jonathan Kellerman |
| Children | 4, includingJesse[1] |
Faye Marder Kellerman[1] (born July 31, 1952[2]) is an American writer ofmystery novels, in particular the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books,The Quality of Mercy,Moon Music, andStraight into Darkness.
Kellerman was born on July 31, 1952, inSt. Louis, Missouri. She attendedUCLA, where she earned aBachelor of Arts inmathematics in 1974. In 1978, she received herdoctorate of dental surgery, but she has never practiceddentistry and was ahousewife before publishing her first novel. In a 1997 essay, she says she cannot pinpoint the metamorphosis from dentist 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 of course, a penchant for the bizarre."[3]
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Kellerman is a practicingOrthodox Jew, as are her husband and son, novelistsJonathan Kellerman andJesse Kellerman, respectively. Her writing frequently deals with Jewish themes and characters, incorporating them into the framework of the traditional mystery. The Peter Decker books, for example, center on a police detective raised as aSouthern Baptist, who returns to his Jewish roots after falling in love with Rina Lazarus, an Orthodox Jew, while investigating a rape that took place near ayeshiva.
The Kellermans are the only married couple ever to appear on theNew York Times bestseller list simultaneously (for two different books).[citation needed] They have four children. Their youngest child, Aliza Kellerman, co-wrotePrism (2009), a young adult novel, with her mother.[citation needed]
In 1999, Kellerman sued the writers of the 1998 filmShakespeare in Love, who she claimed stole the plotline from her 1989 novelThe Quality of Mercy, in which Shakespeare romances a Jewish woman who dresses as a man, and attempts to solve a murder.Miramax Films spokesman Andrew Stengel derided the claim, filed in the US District Court six days before the1999 Academy Awards, as "absurd", and argued that the timing "suggests a publicity stunt".[4][5] An out-of-court settlement was reached.
(Source:Bookreporter.com – Author Bibliography – Faye Kellerman Bibliography)
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