Sophie Littlefield is an American author of
women's fiction
Women's fiction is an umbrella term for women-centered books that focus on women's life experience that are marketed to female readers, and includes many mainstream novels or women's rights books. It is distinct from Women's writing in English, wo ...
,
crime fiction
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, and
young-adult novels. In 2010, she was nominated for the
Edgar
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Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the Late Midd ...
and won an
Anthony Award
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Categori ...
for Best First Novel: ''A Bad Day for Sorry''.
Littlefield was born in Missouri and resides in
San Francisco, California
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.
She has a
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
in computer science from
Indiana University
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.
She has served as president for the San Francisco chapter of
Romance Writers of America
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.
Books
;Standalone novels
*''The Guilty One'' (2015) Gallery Books
*''The Missing Place'' (2014) Gallery Books
*''Garden of Stones'' (2013) Harlequin MIRA
*''House of Glass'' (2014) Harlequin MIRA
*''Hanging by a Thread'' (2012) Delacorte Books for Young Readers
;Stella Hardesty crime series
*''
A Bad Day for Sorry'' (2009) Minotaur Books
2010 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
*''A Bad Day for Pretty'' (2010) Minotaur Books
*''A Bad Day for Scandal'' (2011) Minotaur Books
*''A Bad Day for Mercy'' (2012) Minotaur Books
*''A Bad Day for Romance'' (2013) Minotaur Books
;Aftertime series
*''Aftertime'' (2011) Luna
*''Rebirth'' (2011) Luna
*''Horizon'' (2012) Luna
;Joe Bashir crime series
*''Blood Bond'' (2012) Pocket Star
*''Shattered Bond'' (2013) Pocket Star
;Hailey Tarbell series
*''Banished'' (2010) Delacorte Books for Young Readers
*''Unforsaken'' (2011) Delacorte Books for Young Readers
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
Anthony Award winners
American women novelists
American women children's writers
American children's writers
American crime writers
American women crime writers
Indiana University alumni
Novelists from Missouri
Novelists from San Francisco