Charlotte MacLeod (November 12, 1922 – January 14, 2005) was a Canadian-American mystery fiction writer.

Biography

Charlotte Matilda MacLeod was born in 1922 in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, but emigrated to the United States in 1923 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1951. She attended the Art Institute of Boston.

Her work sold over one million copies in the United States, Canada, and Japan. MacLeod was co-founder of the American Crime Writers League and served as president. which was also nominated for an Edgar Award.

MacLeod began writing at 6 a.m. each day, continued through the morning, then used the afternoon for rewrites.

MacLeod spent her final years in Maine. Toward the end of her years, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease. She died on January 14, 2005, at a nursing home in Lewiston, Maine.

Awards

In 1998, MacLeod received the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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!Title

!Award

!Result

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|1986

|The Plain Old Man

|Anthony Award for Best Novel

|Finalist

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|1987

| rowspan="2" |The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond

|Nero Award

|Winner

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|1988

|Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel

|Finalist

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| rowspan="2" |1989

|“A Cozy For Christmas” in Mistletoe Mysteries

|Agatha Award for Best Short Story

|Finalist

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|Vane Pursuit

|CWA Last Laugh Dagger Award

|Finalist

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;As editor (anthologies)

  • Christmas Stalkings
  • Mistletoe Mysteries

;Non-fiction

  • Astrology for Skeptics (1973)
  • Had She But Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1994)

As Alisa Craig

;Mysteries starring Madoc Rhys of the RCMP & Janet Wadman Rhys

  • A Pint of Murder (1980)
  • Murder Goes Mumming (1981)
  • A Dismal Thing to Do (1986)
  • Trouble in the Brasses (1989)
  • The Wrong Rite (1992)

;Mysteries starring Dittany Henbit Monk, of the Lobelia Falls Grub-and-Stakers Gardening & Roving Club

  • The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain (1981)
  • The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee (1985)
  • The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke (1988)
  • The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (1990)
  • The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt (1993)

;Stand-alone books

  • The Terrible Tide (1985)
  • Poems of Faith (1989)

Awards and nominations

  • Nero Award (1 win)
  • Edgar Allan Poe Award (2 nominations)
  • American Mystery Awards (5 wins)
  • Bouchercon XXIII Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1986 Anthony award nomination for Best Novel, The Plain Old Man
  • 1992 Anthony award nomination for Best Short Story Collection, Christmas Stalkings: Tales of Yuletide Murder