Lilian Brown Biography

Lilian Jackson Brown American journalist and writer working in the genre of “Cozy” detectives. Born on June 20. Lilian Brown considers the beginning of his literary activity the composition of verses in honor of the mother at the age of two. According to the original method of mother, Lilian formed writing skills - the daughter had to describe everything that happened to her daily at school.

Lilian Brown is a fan of baseball, at 16 she began to make reviews for various sports magazines. In the future, she worked in many areas of journalism - advertising, art, led weekly columns dedicated to poetry and cooking, for more than 30 years she was the editor of "Detroit Free Press". The impetus for writing the first book was a tragic incident: from the 12th floor of the apartment Lilian Brown, her cat falls out, and Lilian suspects the neighbor that he contributed to this flight.

This is how the plot of the story "Revenge Madame Flu" is born. Initially, Lilian makes his main character a journalist, but friends point her to some autobiographical, as an undesirable element for a detective narrative. The main character of her books is the criminal reporter Jim Quiller, in the guise of which the features of friends and acquaintances of the writer were embodied.

Jim Quiller is a middle -aged man and conservative views, full, with a small abdomen and a mustache, which he fiddling in all possible cases, a bachelor and a big fan of cats. His Siamese cats-Coco cat, named after the famous Chinese artist Gao Kegong and the Yum-Yum-Yum cat, intervene in the investigation of crimes. The action of most books takes place in a small provincial town in Michigan, similar to the one in which until the middle of the years the writer herself lived, her husband and their two Siamese cats.

After the release of two more “Cat, who ...”, from the famous series of the writer, she suspends literary activity in connection with disagreements with her publishers. Lilian worked in the style of "cozy" detectives "Cozy", and the publishers demanded more blood and violence. Her next book is only a year.

According to Lilian Brown, “Not all fans of detectives love cats, but most cat lovers adore detectives,” perhaps this explains the phenomenal success of these unusual books. A series about “Cote that. All books contain the initiation“ Earl Bettinger, a husband who for many years publishers has not announced its year of birth until Lilian Brown herself published the exact date in an interview given “Detroit News” in January of the year.

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