{"id":1130,"date":"2015-07-13T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2017-11-09T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:14:49","slug":"cook-thomas-h-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"COOK, THOMAS H., 1947-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer. Born– September 19, 1947, Fort Payne. Parents– Virgil Richard and Myrick (Harper) Cook. Married– Susan Terner, March 17, 1978. Children– One. Education– Georgia State College, B.A., 1969; Hunter College of the City University of New York, M.A. 1972; Columbia University, Master of Philosophy, 1976. Advertising executive for U.S. Industrial Chemicals in New York City, 1970 to 1972; clerk typist for the Association for Help of Retarded Adults in New York City, 1973-1975; teacher of English and history at Dekalb Community College in Georgia, 1978-1981; book review editor for Atlanta magazine, 1978-82.\u00a0Full time writer after 1981. Published work in many journals and anthologies. Edited several editions of the Best American Crime Writing and the Best American Crime Reporting. \u00a0Member Authors Guild, Authors League of America.\u00a0 Awarded the Hammett Prize by the International Association of Crime Writers, 1995; Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1996; Barry Award, 2006, and Martin Beck Award, 1996.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blood Echoes:\u00a0 The True Story of an Infamous Mass Murder and Its Aftermath.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Dutton, 1992.<\/p>\n

Blood Innocents. New York; Playboy Press, 1980.<\/p>\n

Breakheart Hill.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Bantam, 1995.<\/p>\n

The Chatham School Affair.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Bantam, 1996.<\/p>\n

The City When it Rains. New York; Putnam, 1991.<\/p>\n

The Cloud of Unknowing.\u00a0 Orlando:\u00a0 Harcourt, 2007.<\/p>\n

The Crime of Julian Wells.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Mysterious Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

A Dancer in the Dust.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Mysterious Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Early Graves; a Shocking True-Crime Story of the Youngest Woman\u00a0Ever Sentenced to Death Row. New York; Dalton, 1990.<\/p>\n

Elena. Boston; Houghton, 1984.<\/p>\n

Evidence of Blood. New York; Putnam, 1991.<\/p>\n

The Fate of Katherine Carr.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.<\/p>\n

Fatherhood and Other Stories.\u00a0 Cambridge, UK:\u00a0 Pegasus Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Flesh and Blood. New York; Putnam, 1989.<\/p>\n

Instruments of Night.\u00a0 New York: Bantam, 1998.<\/p>\n

The Interrogation.\u00a0 New York;\u00a0 Bantam, 2002.<\/p>\n

Into the Web.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Bantam, 2004.<\/p>\n

The Last Talk with Lola Faye.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.<\/p>\n

Master of the Delta.\u00a0 Orlando:\u00a0 Harcourt, 208.<\/p>\n

Mortal Memory.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1993.<\/p>\n

Night Secrets. New York; Putnam, 1990.<\/p>\n

The Orchids. Boston; Houghton, 1982.<\/p>\n

Peril.\u00a0 New York;\u00a0 Bantam, 2004.<\/p>\n

Places in the Dark.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Bantam, 2000.<\/p>\n

The Quest for Anna Klein.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.<\/p>\n

Red Leaves. Orlando:\u00a0 Harcourt, 2005.<\/p>\n

Sacrificial Ground. New York; Putnam, 1988.<\/p>\n

Sandrine’s Case.\u00a0 Mysterious Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

Streets of Fire. New York; Putnam, 1989.<\/p>\n

Tabernacle. Boston; Houghton, 1982.<\/p>\n

Taken: A Novelization.\u00a0 New York: Dell, 2000.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moon over Manhattan.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 New Millennium Press, 2002.<\/p>\n

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