Joan Lowery Nixon
| Joan Lowery Nixon | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 3, 1927 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Houston, Texas |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
| Spouse | Hershell Nixon |
| Children | Kathleen Brush Maureen Quinlan |
Joan Lowery Nixon (February 3, 1927 – June 28, 2003) was an American journalist and author, specializing in historical fiction and mysteries for children and young adults.
Biography
Joan Lowery Nixon was born on February 3, 1927 in Los Angeles, California. In 1947, she received a degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. At USC, she met her husband, Hershell, a United States Navy officer and a geologist. At USC she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority.[1] She sold her books at various schools in Los Angeles before becoming a full-time writer. Her son, Joe Nixon, is a Houston lawyer, who was from 1995 to 2007 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 133 in Houston.[2] Nixon, her husband, and their children lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, before finally settling in the Memorial and Tanglewood area of Houston, Texas. She died in Houston of pancreatic cancer in Houston on June 28, 2003.[2]
Work
Nixon wrote more than 140 books,[2] including The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore (1979). She co-authored several science books with her geologist husband Hershell Nixon.
Nixon was the only author to win four Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and had five additional nominations.[2] She won the California Young Reader Medal of the California Library Association twice. She also won the Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Award twice, and received the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Her book Land of Hope is used in some middle schools.
Her novel The Other Side of Dark was chosen to be in the 1995 TV movie Awake To Danger, starring Tori Spelling and Michael Gross.
See also
References
External links
- Short autobiography at Scholastic Teachers
- Joan Lowery Nixon Collection at University of Minnesota CLRC, with biographical sketch
- Joan Lowery Nixon at Library of Congress Authorities, with 152 catalog records
- Use mdy dates from July 2013
- 1927 births
- 2003 deaths
- American children's writers
- American women journalists
- American mystery writers
- Edgar Award winners
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer
- People from Houston, Texas
- Writers from Los Angeles, California
- University of Southern California alumni
- Cancer deaths in Texas
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century women writers
