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Dreda Say Mitchell

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Dreda Say Mitchell is a British crime novelist. She won the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Award for best first novel in 2004 with Running Hot.

She was born in 1965 in London's East End to Caribbean migrants from Grenada. She grew up in a housing estate and learned to love reading in the Whitechapel library, her local library. She has a degree in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a MA in education studies. She has worked as a teacher and education consultant in primary and secondary schools, and as a broadcaster and journalist.[1][2]

Books

  • Gangster Girl due out March 2010
  • Geezer Girls 2009 Hodder & Stoughton ISBN 9780340937112
  • Killer Tune 2007 Hodder & Stoughton ISBN 9780340937082
  • Running Hot 2004 Maia Press.

Opinion pieces

References

Author’s website

See also