About Author GRETA MANVILLE

ABOUT GRETA MANVILLE

Greta Manville (G. C. Manville) lives in Arizona where she writes mystery and suspense novels, participates in writers' conferences and critique groups, lectures, and has served as a contest coordinator. She has also judges fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Greta's writing has won first place in contests conducted by SouthWest Writers and Authorlink.com as well as the grand prize for Sparrowgrass Forum's "Poetic Voices of America" contest in 1999. Her award-winning poem "Passage" may be read here.

She is the recipient of a John Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University (2002-2003), her project to conclude the research and writing of an annotated secondary bibliography on John Steinbeck, initiated by Professor Martha Heasley Cox who founded the Steinbeck Research Center at SJSU. The bibliography is now available online, as a free research tool for use by scholars, students, and readers with general interest in the Nobel Prize winning author. The bibliography may be found at www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu. The resource carries more than 10,000 citations and abstracts related to Steinbeck criticism and biography and is continually updated by Greta and other scholars. Greta also serves as a bibliographer for Steinbeck Review, a scholarly journal published semi-annually. She is featured in Robert B. Harmon's Tracking John Steinbeck: A Bibliographer's Perspective, San Jose, CA: Dibco Press, 2006.

Greta belongs to Arizona Authors Association and serves as Treasurer. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.

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