Maris Soule
Maris Soule (born June 19, 1939) is an American author of romance and romantic suspense novels, mysteries, and short stories. Her latest book, Eat Crow and Die, is a mystery novel. Her books feature a variety of settings and situations, including the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Search and Rescue dogs, barrel racing, dressage, and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy.
Biography[]
Maris Soule was born in Oakland, California. She graduated from U.C. Davis with a B.A. After receiving a Lifetime Teaching Credential from U.C. Berkeley, she taught art and math at Rio Americano High School, Carmichael, California, La Cumbre Junior High School, Santa Barbara, California, and Galesburg-Augusta High School, Galesburg, Michigan. She married in 1968, and she and her husband moved to Michigan in 1970.
Recognition and awards[]
Several of her books have been finalists or winners of awards from the Romance Writers of America and the Wisconsin Romance Writers of America.
- Finalist for RWA's 1988 RITA Award (known then as the Golden Medallion Award) for A Winning Combination
- First Place, Short Contemporary, WisRWA Write Touch: Readers' Choice Award
- First Place, Traditional Category, WisRWA Write Touch: Readers' Choice Award for Substitute Mom
- Second Place, 1998 Kiss of Death contest for Shelter from the Storm
- Finalist for 1999 RITA Award and 3rd in Kiss of Death contest for Chase the Dream
- Winner of 2017 Mystery/Thriller division of the Florida Writers Associations Royal Palm Literary Award for "Echoes of Terror."
Bibliography[]
- (2017)
- (2015)
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- (2011)
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- (1999)
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- Stop the Wedding (1994)
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- The Law of Nature (1988)
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External links[]
- 1939 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- University of California, Davis alumni
- People from Oakland, California
- Novelists from California