Steve Hockensmith (born August 17, 1968) is an

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. He was born in

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. He currently lives in

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's bay area with his wife, two children, and pet dog.

Biography

Hockensmith is the author of the ''Holmes on the Range'' mystery series. The first book in the series, ''

Holmes on the Range ''Holmes on the Range'' (born February 7, 2006 in St. Martin's Minotaur) is the debut novel from Steve Hockensmith and introduced the characters of Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his younger brother Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer. Mr. Hockensmith w ...

'' (published in 2006), was a finalist for the Edgar, Shamus and

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s for Best First Novel. Several of Hockensmith's

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have been nominated for awards in the mystery field. He won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award for "Erie's Last Day," published in the May 2000 issue of ''

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'' (AHMM). Two subsequent Larry Erie stories, "Tricks" (''AHMM'', August 2004) and "The Big Road" (''AHMM'', May 2005), were finalists for the Shamus Award for Best Short Story from the

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(PWA). "The Big Road" was also nominated for the Anthony and Barry Awards. More recently, a Big Red/Old Red story, "Dear Dr. Watson" (published in the February 2007 ''EQMM''), was a finalist for the Anthony Award. Hockensmith authored the third book in the Quirk Classics series, '' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls'', in 2010, as well as its sequel, ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After'' in 2011Attending C2E2 This Weekend? Meet the BRAAAAINS Behind Quirk Classics
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Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Notes

External links

Official website
Living people 1968 births 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Indiana University alumni Writers from Louisville, Kentucky Writers from California American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Kentucky {{Louisville-stub