Anne perry biography
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Anne Perry: The Mystery Novelist Who Committed A Real Murder
Anne Perry, the British best-selling writer of more than mystery novels and short stories, lived the kind of life one of her own fictional characters could have lived. As a teen, 25 years before publishing her first book, she committed murder.
Perry, who died on April 10 at age 84, was convicted of the crime in , when she was 15 years old. Then known by her birth name Juliet Hulme, she and her then-best friend Pauline Parker beat Parker’s mother to death in New Zealand, sending her to prison for five years.
Perry’s role in the killing did not become publicly known until the release of the film Heavenly Creatures (), which depicted the crime and starred Kate Winslet as Perry. She had already been working as a writer for 15 years by that point, and the movie’s release brought her an entirely new level of infamy.
“Why can’t I be judged for who I am now, not what I was then?” she said to The Guardian in
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This post originally appeared on Murder Is Everywhere.
I’ve been thinking about the mystery author Anne Perry, who recently died in Los Angeles at age eighty-four from declining health. Anne wrote roughly books and many short stories and essays over her forty-five-year career. The Times of London named her as one of their Masters of brott of the Twentieth Century. She was the winner of the Edgar Award, and multiple Agatha Awards, including one for lifetime achievement. She was also named the Distinguished Guest of Honor at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
After a prolific mystery author dies, eulogies discussing the value of their work typically flood newspapers and social media. Yet there’s been scarcely a ripple about Anne’s death, despite her importance as one of the founding authors of the socially betydelsefull historical mystery genre. Perhaps this fryst vatten because people still can’t come to terms with Anne Perry the novelist, and Anne Perry the person.
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Anne Perry
For the politician, see Anne C. Perry.
English author (–)
Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October – 10 April ) was a British writer and murderer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction.
In it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted of murder in Christchurch, New Zealand, in , when she was fifteen. She and her sixteen-year-old friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker's mother, Honorah. After serving a five-year sentence for the murder, Perry had changed her name (formerly Juliet Hulme) and returned to the United Kingdom. She was identified by the media following the release of the film Heavenly Creatures, directed by Peter Jackson, which is based on the case.
Early life
[edit]Born in London, the daughter of physicist Henry Rainsford Hulme, Hulme was diagnosed with tuberculosis as a child and sent to the Caribbean, South Africa, and New Zealand in hopes that a warmer c