Lisa Lutz

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Biography

Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling author of the six books in the Spellman series, How to Start a Fire, Heads you Lose (with David Hayward), and the children's book, How to Negotiate Everything (illustrated by Jaime Temairik). Her latest book, The Passenger, a psychological thriller, will be published March 2016 by Simon and Schuster. Lutz has won the Alex award and has been nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel.Although she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, the University of Leeds in England, and San Francisco State University, she still does not have a bachelor's degree. Lisa spent most of the 1990s hopping through a string of low-paying odd jobs while writing and rewriting the screenplay Plan B, a mob comedy. After the film was made in 2000, she vowed she would never write another screenplay. Lisa lives in the Hudson Valley, NY.

  • Primary profession
  • Writer·miscellaneous
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 13 March 1970
  • Place of birth
  • Southern California
  • Education
  • University of Leeds·San Francisco State University·University of California· Irvine·University of California· Santa Cruz
  • Knows language
  • English language

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Books

Trivia

Lisa Lutz novel "Curse of the Spellmans" was nominated for a 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award (or, "Edgar"), presented by the Mystery Writers of America.

Quotes

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.

Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you. .

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