Monica Hesse is a national bestselling author from
Normal, Illinois
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and Illinois' seventh most ...
. She is the recipient of the
Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...
for Best Young Adult Mystery for her book ''Girl in the Blue Coat'', and the Society for Feature Journalism's Narrative Storytelling award.
She is a feature writer for ''
The Washington Post
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'' where in 2018 she was appointed first ever gender columnist.
Works
* 2016 – ''Girl in the Blue Coat''
* 2017 – ''American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land''
* 2018 – ''The War Outside ''
* 2020 - ''They Went Left''
References
External links
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Living people
Edgar Award winners
People from Normal, Illinois
Year of birth missing (living people)
American mystery novelists
American columnists
The Washington Post people
American women columnists
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American women writers
Novelists from Illinois
Journalists from Illinois
American young adult novelists
Women writers of young adult literature
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