Background
Dorothy Cannell was born in 1943, in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Cannell received her education at Illinois Central College.
Dorothy Cannell was born in 1943, in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Cannell received her education at Illinois Central College.
After her graduation, Cannell works as a full-time mystery writer. She writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator, and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency.
Dorothy is a member of Mystery Writers of America, American Crime Writers, and Sisters in Crime.
Cannell moved to the United States in 1963 at the age of 20. She married Julian Cannell in 1964 and they lived in Peoria, Illinois, for many years before moving to Belfast, Maine. She is a mother of four: Warren, Jason, Rachel and Shana; and a grandmother of ten.