Background

Mignon Good Eberhart was born on July 6, 1899 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. As a teenager, Good often wrote short stories and novels to occupy herself.

Education

Mignon attended Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1917 to 1920, but did not complete the coursework for a degree.

Career

By the end of the 1930s Eberhart had become the leading female crime novelist in the United States and was one of the highest-paid female crime novelists in the world, next to Agatha Christie. She was one of the first of many writers called, by their publishers, "America's Agatha Christie". Eberhart also served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. She wrote a total of 59 novels, the last published in 1988. Eight of her novels were adapted as movies. Eberhart died in 1996.

Achievements

• Mignon's second novel "While the Patient Slept" received the $5000 Scotland Yard Prize in 1931. In 1935 Nebraska Wesleyan University presented her with an honorary doctorate. In 1971 she received the Grand Masters Edgar Award, an honor from the Mystery Writers of America. In 1994 she received the Agatha Award: Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Works

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  • Witness at Large
  • The cup, the blade, or the gun
  • The White Cockatoo
  • While the Patient Slept
  • Hasty Wedding
  • The Cases of Susan Dare
  • Wolf in Man's Clothing (The Sarah Keate Mysteries)
  • Another Woman's House
  • Fair Warning
  • Patient in Room 18
  • Call After Midnight
  • Man missing
  • Murder in Waiting

Connections

In 1923 Mignon married Alanson Clyde Eberhart. After 20 years of marriage, they divorced, and in 1946 Mignon married John Hazen Perry. But within two years, she had divorced Perry and remarried Eberhart. The Eberharts remained married until his death in 1974.

Spouse:

Alanson Clyde Eberhart

Spouse:

John Hazen Perry

References

• America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life and Works