Chatham School Affair (Cook)

Author Bio
• Birth—September 19, 1947
• Where—Fort Payne, Alabama, USA
• Education—B.A., Georgia State College; M.A., Hunter 
   College; MPhil., Columbia University
• Awards—Edgar Award, Barry Award; Martin Beck Award
• Currently—lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and New York,
   New York


Thomas H. Cook is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America. He has written at least 25 novels.

Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and holds a bachelors degree from Georgia State College, and a masters degree in American history from Hunter College in 1972, and in 1976 earned a M.Phil degree from Columbia University.

From 1978 to 1981, Cook taught English and History at Dekalb (GA) Community College, and served as a book review editor for Atlanta magazine from 1978 to 1982, when he took up writing full time.

Cook began his first novel, Blood Innocents, while he was still in graduate school. It was published in 1980, and he has published steadily since then. A movie version of one of his books, Evidence of Blood, was released in 1997. Cook lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City.

Six of his novels have been nominated for awards, including Red Leaves in 2006, which was also shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award, and went on to win the Barry Award and The Martin Beck Award. (From Wikipedia.)