Jean Potts Explained

Jean Catherine Potts
Birth Date:17 November 1910
Birth Place:St. Paul, Nebraska
Death Place:New York
Nationality:American
Occupation:Novelist
Years Active:1910 - 1999
Known For:Mystery novels
Notable Works:Go, Lovely Rose, The Evil Wish
Awards:Edgar Award

Jean Catherine Potts (November 17, 1910 – November 10, 1999) was an American award-winning mystery novelist.

Early life

Potts was born in St. Paul, Nebraska, graduated from St. Paul High School, studied at the Denver Women's College, and graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Career

Potts worked as a journalist in St. Paul before moving to New York where she continued her writing. Her stories appeared in various magazines including Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Woman's Day.[1] [3]

She died in New York in 1999.[1] [2]

Works

Among Potts' published writings are:

Awards

Potts won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel for Go, Lovely Rose, and an Edgar Award nomination for The Evil Wish.[14]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Visit Nebraska: Jean Potts, Literary Exhibit . visitnebraska.com . Nebraska Tourism Commission . August 9, 2018.
  2. News: November 17, 1999 . Arts: Jean Potts, 88, Author of Prize-Winning Mystery . New York Times . August 9, 2018.
  3. Web site: Jean Catherine Potts:1910-1999 Saint Paul's Nationally-Acclaimed Mystery Writer . historichc.org . Howard County Historical Society . August 9, 2018.
  4. March 1998 . Mystery writer with St. Paul roots achieves international acclaim. . Ron W. Sack . Historically Speaking . Howard County Historical Society . 1, 2 . August 9, 2018.
  5. Web site: Go, Lovely Rose . There's not much fancy footwork before a deathbed confession clears the case -- but not the atmosphere -- and a suicide dots the i's. . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . August 9, 2018.
  6. The Criminal Record . Ramblingly pleasant . 37 . Sergeant Cuff . August 6, 1955 . Saturday Review .
  7. The Criminal Record . 40 . Sergeant Cuff . Nice writing and characterization, but too much carryback... . August 6, 1955 . Saturday Review .
  8. Web site: The Man With the Cane . The murder of the man with a cane, the bits and pieces of the poison pen letters, the antagonism they breed, another attempt at murder and Val learns a bitter truth as a solution. New York City, uptown and downtown, is the setting for the fourth in this author's commendable stories. . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . August 9, 2018.
  9. The Criminal Record . 59 . Sergeant Cuff . ...yarn alternately discloses, conceals; pace variable. . August 6, 1955 . Saturday Review.
  10. Web site: The Evil Wish . Stress and situation in welcome literacy.. Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . August 9, 2018.
  11. Web site: The Only Good Secretary . The terror that can invest the ordinary and the way people under stress can talk themselves into a corner are the author's special forte and have been since way back when with Death of a Stray Cat et al.. Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . August 9, 2018.
  12. Web site: Footsteps on the Stairs . Dialogues in detection, different, good, romantic but not foolish. . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . August 9, 2018.
  13. Web site: The Little Lie . As one might well expect, The Little Lie is a practiced deception. . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . August 9, 2018.
  14. Web site: Jean Potts . theedgars.com . Mystery Writers of America . August 9, 2018 . July 31, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200731232503/http://theedgars.com/awards/ . dead .

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