Mignon G. Eberhart
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Mignon Good Eberhart (July 6, 1899, Lincoln, Nebraska) was an American author of mystery novels.
She had one of the longest careers (from the 1920s to the 1980s) among major American mystery writers.
Early life
Mignonette Good was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 6, 1899. Good often as a child, wrote short stories and novels to amuse herself. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1917 to 1920, but did not complete the coursework for a degree. In 1923, she married Alanson Clyde Eberhart and began writing short stories to combat boredom. She had begun writing novels in a few years. Nurse Sarah Keate and her partner Detective Lance O'Leary published her first book, The Patient in Room 18, in 1929. While the Patient Slept was also featuring Keate, the $5000 Scotland Yard Prize was awarded in 1931. Eberhart's alma mater presented her with an honorary doctorate four years later.
Personal life
The normally prolific Eberhart wrote only few books in the 1940s, owing to upheaval in her personal life. She divorced Alanson Eberhart and married John Hazen Perry in 1946 after 20 years of marriage. However, she had divorced Perry and remarried Eberhart within two years. The Eberharts lived until his death in 1974.
Eberhart died in 1996. She is buried in Long Island National Cemetery, a Veteran Administration burial site, alongside husband Alanson, who served as a Navy lieutenant commander in World War II. Dead Yesterday and Other Stories, Rick Cypert and Kirby McCauley's curated collection of her short stories, was released by Crippen & Landru in 2007.
Career
Eberhart, the leading female crime novelist in the United States by the 1930s, was one of the world's highest-paid female crime novelists, next to Agatha Christie. "America's Agatha Christie," one of many writers' published titles, has few things in common with Dame Agatha in terms of plotting, characterization, or even type of story.' She wrote a total of 59 books, the last appearing in 1988 just before her 89th birthday. Beginning in 1935 with When the Patient Slept, eight of her books were adapted as films. The last adaptation, which was based on the book Hasty Wedding's book, was released in 1945. Fair Warning, also worked with Robert Wallsten to adapt her novel Fair Warning into the play Eight O'Clock Tuesday, which premiered in 1939-40 and then on Broadway in 1941, starring Celeste Holm.
Sarah Keate, although well-known as the protagonist of Eberhart's first five books, was the author's only series sleuth, with just a handful of appearances after the 1930s. Rather, Eberhart wrote mainly "standalone" mysteries, which is quite unusual for a crime writer with such a large following.
Eberhart was one of the pioneers of the classic romantic suspense story, starting with some of Anna Katharine Green's earlier writings and being brought to its height by Mary Roberts Rinehart in the early 20th century. Many female sleuths had appeared in short stories before, and Rinehart had introduced Hilda Adams, aka "Miss Pinkerton," in the second decade of the twentieth century. However, when Eberhart introduced Sarah Keate in 1929, it was still unusual to have a female protagonist in "straight detective stories." Agatha Christie wrote the first book starring Jane Marple, a female detective who had previously appeared in short stories collected as "The Tuesday Club Murders" a year after Eberhart's first book was published.