Background
Winters was born in Maryland and is a 1998 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was active in the comedy group Mama's Pot Roast.
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Education
Washington University in St. Louis.
Career
In high school, he played in the punk band Corm, alongside John Davis, now of Title Tracks. Winters was first known as the author of the 2009 New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. The third book in the Policeman series, World of Trouble, was published in July 2014.
Other novels include Android Karenina (Quirk Books), published in June 2010. A young adult novel, Finkleman, was published by HarperCollins on September 21, 2010. In 2011, Winters published a second book in the Ms.
Finkleman series, titled The Mystery of the Missing Everything, and Bedbugs, a horror novel for adults. Winters has also written numerous books in the Worst-Case Scenario Series. His next novel Underground Airlines will be published by Mulholland Books and released on July 5, 2016.
It is an alternate history book, set in a present-day alternate universe in which the American Civil War never occurred, with human chattel slavery continuing to be practiced legally in four U.S. states as a result. In the book, the main character, a former slave and bounty hunter working for the U.S. government, attempts to infiltrate an abolitionist organization known as the "Underground Airlines". On January 8, 2016, Mulholland released a "book trailer" for Underground Airlines.
He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. 2008 Dramatists Guild Fellowship 2010 Edgar Award Nomination (The Secret Life of Ms Finkleman) 2011 Bank Street Best Children's Book (The Secret Life of Ms Finkleman) 2012 Macavity Award Nominee (The Last Policeman) 2014 Edgar Award Nominee (World of Trouble) 2015 Anthony Award Nominee (World of Trouble).
Achievements
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In 2012 he published The Last Policeman, the first in a trilogy of detective novels set in a pre-apocalyptic United States. That book won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category Best Paperback Original. Was an Amazon Best Book of 2012. And was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery by Mystery Readers International. The second novel in the Last Policeman trilogy, Countdown City, was published in July 2013. It won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction. It was nominated for the Edgar Aware in the category of Best Paperback Original and for the Anthony Award. Finkleman was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America on January 19, 2011. 2012 Edgar Award Winner (The Last Policeman) 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Winner (Countdown City).
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Awards
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Edgar Award Anthony Award; Macavity Award; Edgar Award; Philip K. Dick Award
The Macavity Awards are a literary award for mystery writers.; The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.; The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986.; The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.The Macavity Awards are a literary award for mystery writers.; The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.; The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986.; The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.