Phyllis A. Whitney

3 September 1903 – 8 February 2008

100 works on record

Biography

Phyllis Ayame Whitney was born in Yokohama, Japan, the daughter of American parents, and spent her early years in Asia. She began writing early in her teens. In 1918, upon the death of her father, she travelled with her mother to Berkeley, California, and then to San Antonio, Texas. A few years later her mother died, and she moved to Chicago to live with her aunt. After graduating from high school, she began to write seriously, and began to sell her stories to newspapers and pulp magazines while supporting herself by working for The Chicago Public Library and bookstores in Chicago. She married her first husband in 1934. During the 1940s she was a children's book editor for both the Chicago Sun and the Philadelphia Enquirer. Her first book, a mystery for children called A Place for Ann, was published in 1941. Over the course of her career, she wrote more than 70 novels. In 1961, her book The <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL60460W?edition=ia%3Amysteryofhaunted00whit">Mystery of the Haunted Pool</a> won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile novel, and she received another in 1964 for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand. In 1975, she was elected President of the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1988, she was awarded its Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.

Works

Black diamonds

Blue fire, and Black amber

Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 4, 1986

Two novels by Phyllis A Whitney

Mystery of the green cat

Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1981

Best Sellers

Spindrift

Secret of the Emerald Star

Mystery of the strange traveler

Secret of the stone face

A place for Ann

The silver inkwell

Secret of Haunted Mesa

The vanishing scarecrow

Red is for murder

A window for Julie

Love me, love me not

Writing to win

A star for Ginny

Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Four

Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Two

Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Three

Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume One

Works of Phyllis Whitney

Thunder Heights, Window on the Square, Two Novels By Phyllis Whitney, Hardcover, 1960 Book Club Edition, 505 Pages

Silversword - the Singing Stones

Books at Waters Edge ( 5 Books) - SILVERSWORD, FLAMING TREE , EMERALD, EBONY SWAN, STAR FLIGHT

Phyllis Whitney 5 Book Set Woman Without a Past Hunter's Green Rainbow in the Mist Vermillion Spindrift HARDCOVER

The Glass Flame - Hunter's Green

Mystery of the Golden Horn

Song of the Shaggy Canary

Phyllis A. Whitney 9 Books / Silverhill*Spindrift*Lost Island*Listen For The whisperer*Quicksilver Pool*The Fire and The Gold*The Turquoise Mask*Sea Jade*Columbella

Phyllis A. Whitney 4-Book Set