Nancy Pickard (born September 19, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and began writing when she was 35 years old.
She is frequently a panelist at the Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave, a convention for mystery writers and mystery fans in Manhattan, Kansas.
Bibliography
Non-series novels
- 2001 Naked Came the Phoenix (serial novel) Marcia Talley, ed. ISBN 0312251947
(with Nevada Barr, Mary Jane Clark, Diana Gabaldon, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Laurie R. King, Val McDermid, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Anne Perry, J. D. Robb and Lisa Scottoline) - 2006 The Virgin of Small Plains ISBN 0345470990
- 2010 The Scent of Rain and Lightning ISBN 978-0345471017
Short stories
Short story anthologies
- 1994 Nancy Pickard presents Malice Domestic 3 ISBN 0671738283
- 1999 Storm Warnings ISBN 0786218118
- 1999 The First Lady Murders ISBN 0671014447
- 1999 Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder ISBN 0425168905
Non-fiction
- 2003 Seven Steps on the Writer's Path (with Lynn Lott) ISBN 034545524X
Awards and recognition
See also
- The Scent of Rain and Lightning
References
External links
• Interview with Nancy Pickard, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour TV Series, Episode #56 (1993)



