ABOUT CAROLE SHMURAK:
In addition to co-authoring the Matty Trescott YA series, Carole writes the Susan Lombardi mysteries (for adults). To read about Carole’s mysteries or her upcoming public appearances, use the links below.
Carole's complete bio is included below and to the right.
Dr. Carole Shmurak
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INTERVIEWS ONLINE
An interview with Carole Shmurak by Steve Lewis on Mystery File.
Interview with Carole Shmurak by Julia Buckley at her blog, Mysterious Musings - How a Mystery Writer Views the World.
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Last Updated on 6/20/08
FROM CAROLE:
If you had asked me when I was ten years old what I wanted to be, I would have said a writer. But life is funny. The times I grew up in and my family background led me to become a scientist instead. So I went into science research, then science teaching. After 20+ years of high school teaching I became a college professor. Now many years later, I am back to my childhood dream: I'm a writer!
I've always been an avid reader, starting with my discovery of L. Frank Baum's Oz books when I was 6 or 7 years old. I still read a lot, mostly detective fiction, and this has inspired me to write detective novels as well as our Matty Trescott books. I was thrilled when Ring Out Wild Bells was nominated for an Agatha, one of the major awards in detective fiction.
I have also loved Broadway musicals my whole life. I grew up in New York City and still go to Broadway when I can. Now that I live in Connecticut, I also enjoy the Goodspeed Opera House, the Williamstown Theater Festival and other regional theaters. My other love is movies — the classics by Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Capra and other directors of the 1930s-1950s, as well as the great movie musicals of that era.
Currently I live in Connecticut with my husband Steve and our cat Ariel. I have a grown daughter, Jill Susannah, who lives with her husband Baird, in Minnesota; they both teach at Carleton College. (You can see us all in the photos below.)
Baird, Susannah, Carole & Steve in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, a wonderful town for theater-lovers.
Ariel rules the roost on the back porch.
THE “OFFICIAL” BIO
Carole B. Shmurak, Ph.D., received degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Harvard University and Indiana University and is Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University. She was a teacher in private schools in New York and Connecticut for 20 years prior to CCSU. She is the author of ten books, including Deadmistress, her first mystery featuring professor/sleuth Susan Lombardi, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by Writers Notes Magazine. Her second Lombardi mystery, Death by Committee, appeared in Fall 2006. Under the pseudonym Carroll Thomas, she is the co-author of the Matty Trescott young adult novels, one of which (Ring Out Wild Bells) was nominated for the Agatha for best young adult mystery of 2001. She lives in Farmington CT with her husband Steve and has just finished her third Susan Lombardi mystery, Death at Hilliard High.