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HELEN A. HARRISON
During her career as a director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York, Helen A. Harrison began writing mystery novels set in the New York art world. A widely published author of books and articles on art, she enjoys making up stories in which fictional characters interact with real people from her own background and experience as a New York Times art critic, NPR arts commentator, museum curator and practicing artist. Her second novel, An Accidental Corpse, won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Mystery & Suspense. A New York City native, she and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor with the ghost of Roy’s beloved studio cat, Mittens.
THE ART OF MURDER MYSTERIES
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