Lesley Grant-Adamson
b. 1942 · 8 books
Biography
Lesley Grant-Adamson is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and teacher of creative writing. She was a journalist who gave up her job (as a feature writer on the *Guardian in London*) to write fiction. Her first two novels ***Patterns in the Dust*** and ***The Face of Death*** (Faber, 1985) brought her international success with the classic English detective story and the psychological suspense novel.
***Patterns in the Dust*** was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey award for first crime novels. Like several of her early novels, it featured newspaper folk and their ailing industry. She wrote a further 14 crime novels of various types, while reviewers credited her with ‘turning the genre into an art form’. Her short stories have been read on BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and Classic FM. They have appeared in magazines, literary journals and anthologies.
Lesley has taught novel-writing at the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd. Her success as a teacher, and her wide experience of writing crime fiction, led to a commission for ***Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction*** (Hodder, 1996) and the updated ***Writing Crime Fiction*** (Hodder, 2003). After her RLF fellowships she taught a City University evening class in writing crime fiction. She tutors writers individually, from her home in Suffolk where she lives with her husband <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3116832A" target="_blank">Andrew</a>. They once wrote a book together. ***A Season in Spain*** (Pavilion, 1994) is a portrait of the Alpujarra region of Andalusia where they lived for two years.
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***Patterns in the Dust*** was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey award for first crime novels. Like several of her early novels, it featured newspaper folk and their ailing industry. She wrote a further 14 crime novels of various types, while reviewers credited her with ‘turning the genre into an art form’. Her short stories have been read on BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and Classic FM. They have appeared in magazines, literary journals and anthologies.
Lesley has taught novel-writing at the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd. Her success as a teacher, and her wide experience of writing crime fiction, led to a commission for ***Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction*** (Hodder, 1996) and the updated ***Writing Crime Fiction*** (Hodder, 2003). After her RLF fellowships she taught a City University evening class in writing crime fiction. She tutors writers individually, from her home in Suffolk where she lives with her husband <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3116832A" target="_blank">Andrew</a>. They once wrote a book together. ***A Season in Spain*** (Pavilion, 1994) is a portrait of the Alpujarra region of Andalusia where they lived for two years.
(<a href="https://www.rlf.org.uk/writer/lesley-grant-adamson/" target="_blank">Source</a>)
