Whitney, Phyllis Ayame

Whitney, Phyllis Ayame
▪ 2009

      American author

born Sept. 9, 1903, Yokohama, Japan

died Feb. 8, 2008, Faber, Va.
wrote juvenile fiction that consists primarily of serious accounts of growing up and of mystery-adventures; her adult fiction combines romance and mystery to great effect. In 1941 Whitney published her first novel, A Place for Ann, and later works include Willow Hill (1947), Linda's Homecoming (1950), and Secret of the Stone Face (1977). Two of her novels—The Mystery of the Haunted Pool (1960) and The Mystery of the Hidden Hand (1963)—won Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. Emerald (1983), Dream of Orchids (1985), and The Ebony Swan (1992) are among the 39 books she wrote for a mature audience. Her Guide to Writing Fiction appeared in 1982. Whitney was president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1975 and in 1988 received that organization's Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.

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▪ American author
born Sept. 9, 1903, Yokohama, Japan
died Feb. 8, 2008, Faber, Va., U.S.

      American author who wrote for both juvenile and adult audiences—largely mysteries and maturation stories for the former and romantic mysteries for the latter.

      Whitney's father was in business in Japan, and she grew up in the Far East. At the age of 15, Whitney and her widowed mother moved to the United States. In 1928 she sold her first story, and over the next several years she contributed to pulp magazines, juvenile magazines, and church publications. From 1942 to 1946 she edited the children's book page of the Chicago Sun, and in 1947–48 she worked in a similar capacity for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Whitney taught courses in juvenile fiction writing at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1945 and at New York University from 1947 to 1958.

      A prolific and perennially popular writer whose books were frequently reprinted, Whitney wrote for both children and adults. Her juvenile fiction consists primarily of serious accounts of growing up and of mystery-adventures. In 1941 Whitney published her first novel, A Place for Ann, and later works include Willow Hill (1947), Linda's Homecoming (1950), and Secret of the Stone Face (1977). Two of her novels—The Mystery of the Haunted Pool (1960) and The Mystery of the Hidden Hand (1963)—won Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. Her works for adults combine romance and mystery to great effect. Emerald (1983), Dream of Orchids (1985), The Ebony Swan (1992), and Amethyst Dreams (1997) are among some 40 novels she wrote for a mature audience. Her Guide to Writing Fiction appeared in 1982.

      Whitney was president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1975 and in 1988 received their Grandmaster Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1990 she was a recipient of the Agatha Award from Malice Domestic and the Rita Award from the Romance Writers of America.

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