Claire McNab
Claire McNab was the pseudonym of Claire Carmichael (1940-2022), an Australian writer born in Melbourne. While pursuing a career as a high school teacher in Sydney, she began her writing career with comedy plays and textbooks. She left teaching in the mid-1980s to become a full-time writer. In her native Australia, she is known for her self-help and children's books.
She was best-known for 14 crime novels featuring the highly popular Detective-Inspector Carol Ashton and six featuring undercover agent Denise Cleever. Her latest series features Kylie Kendall, an Australian transplanted to Los Angeles, who determines to become a private investigator in order to pursue her father's business and his business partner.
McNab served as the president of Sisters in Crime and was a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America. She is a 2006 Medal Winner of the Alice B. Awards and was nominated for the 1996 Lammy Award Lesbian Mystery Award. [citation needed]
She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and taught not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.[1]
In addition to crime fiction, McNab has published children's novels, picture books, self-help, and English textbooks.
Works
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Lesbian romance
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Non-fiction
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Sci-fi novels
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See also
- Lesbian literature
- List of mystery writers
- List of female detective/mystery writers
- List of female detective characters
- Detective fiction
- Crime fiction
References
- ^ Fox, Katrina (January 2006), "A Curious Woman", SX News, archived from the original on 29 August 2007, retrieved 27 August 2007.
ISBN 0-09-182953-4
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