Penny Mickelbury Explained

Penny Mickelbury
Birth Date: May 31, 1948
Birth Place:Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Penny Mickelbury (born May 31, 1948) is an African-American playwright, short story writer, mystery series writer, and historical novelist who worked as a print and television journalist for ten years before concentrating on fiction writing.[1] After leaving journalism, she taught fiction and script writing in Los Angeles and saw two of her plays (Waiting for Gabriel and Hush Now) produced there. She began writing detective novels with Keeping Secrets, published by Naiad Press in 1994, in the first of a series featuring Gianna Maglione, a lesbian chief of a hate-crimes unit based in Washington, D.C., and her lover 'Mimi Patterson', a journalist. Her second series of four books features Carole Ann Gibson, a Washington, D.C., attorney, who is widowed in the first book and subsequently runs an investigation agency with Jake Graham, the detective who investigated her husband's death. Her third series features Phil Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican private investigator on the Lower Easter Side of New York City. Mickelbury has also written short story collections and historical novels highlighting the Black experience in America.

Selected plays

Novels, short stories, and anthologies

Gianna Maglione novels

Carole Ann Gibson novels

Phil Rodriguez novels

Historical novels

Short story collections

Anthologies

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Awards and recognition

Literary awards

Recognition

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Notes and References

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  2. News: 2017 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS .