Helen Eustis
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Helen Eustis | |
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Born | December 31, 1916 Cincinnati, Ohio |
Died | January 11, 2015 Manhattan, New York |
Occupation | Author and Translator |
Notable awards | Edgar Award |
Spouse | Alfred Young Fisher |
Children | Adam Eustis Fisher |
Parents | Harold Claypool Eustis |
Helen Eustis was an American mystery writer and translator. She was born in Cincinnati. She studied art at Smith College and was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award in 1947 for her novel, The Horizontal Man.[1]
Partial bibliography
Novels
- The Horizontal Man (1946)
- The Fool Killer (1954)
Short stories
- The Captains and the Kings Depart (1949)
- "The Rider on a Pale Horse" (1950), later republished as "Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman" in Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
References
- ^ Slotnik, Daniel E. "Helen Eustis, Mystery Author and Translator, Dies at 98". New York Times. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
Categories:
- 2015 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 1916 births
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women novelists
- American mystery writers
- Women mystery writers
- Writers from Cincinnati
- Novelists from Ohio
- 20th-century American translators
- Smith College alumni
- Edgar Award winners
- American novelist, 20th-century birth stubs