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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Claire McNab
- Claire McNab (born 1940 in Melbourne, Australia) is the pseudonym of Claire Carmichael.
- While pursuing a career as a high school teacher in Sydney, she began her writing career with comedy plays and textbooks.
- She left teaching in the mid-1980s to become a full-time writer.
- In her native Australia she is known for her self-help and children's books. She is best known for 14 crime novels featuring the highly popular Detective-Inspector Carol Ashton and six featuring undercover agent Denise Cleever.
- Her latest series features Kylie Kendall, an Australian transplanted to Los Angeles, who determines to become a private investigator in order to pursue her father's business and his business partner. McNab has served as the president of Sisters in Crime and is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
- She is a 2006 Medal Winner of the Alice B.
- Awards and was nominated for the 1996 Lammy Award Lesbian Mystery Award.She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.In addition to crime fiction, McNab has published children's novels, picture books, self-help, and English textbooks. She returns to Australia at least once a year to refresh her aussie accent.
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