Two of her novels make reference to notorious crimes. Influences Ībbott was influenced by film noir, classic noir fiction, and Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Virgin Suicides. She served as co-showrunner on the series, along with Gina Fattore. In 2019, she adapted her bestselling novel Dare Me into a TV series on USA Network. Ībbott was a screenwriter for The Deuce, an HBO show that premiered in 2017 and deals with pornography and the Mafia in New York in the 1970s and beyond. She also writes a blog with novelist Sara Gran. In addition to literature, Abbott has written for major journals and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. In 2013-2014, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. in English and American literature from New York University, and has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. She believes that watching these films as a child gave her her lifelong interest in crime fiction. Growing up, Abbott was greatly intrigued by the 19s movies she saw at a movie theater in Grosse Pointe. She is also an American writer and producer of television.Ībbott graduated from the University of Michigan. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective. Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction.
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