What is joanne dobson?

Joanne Dobson is an American author and educator. She was born on December 2, 1942, in Norfolk, Virginia, and grew up in a small town in Georgia. She attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1964. She went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in English from Fordham University.

Dobson has worked as a professor of English at Fordham University since 1972, where she specializes in 20th-century American literature and creative writing. In addition to her academic work, she is also a published author and has written several novels and non-fiction works. Her first novel, Quieter Than Sleep, was published in 1997 and was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She has since written several more novels in the Karen Pelletier mystery series, including The Maltese Manuscript, The Raven and the Nightingale, and Cold and Pure and Very Dead.