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 judge for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She has won first place in contests conducted by SouthWest Writers and Authorlink.com as well as the grand prize for the Sparrowgrass Forum's "Poetic Voices of America" contest in 1999 (you may read Passage, her award-winning poem, here). She is the recipient of a John Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University. Her project, to conclude the research and writing of an annotated secondary bibliography on John Steinbeck, co-authored with Professor emerita Martha Heasley Cox who founded the Steinbeck Research Center at SJSU, is now available online, free, a research tool for the use of 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 over 7,000 citations and abstracts related to Steinbeck criticism and biographical articles. Updates for the 2005-2006 years are now in progress.

Greta belongs to Arizona Authors Association, Sisters in Crime (Desert Sleuths Chapter), and West Valley Authors Association. Death Key is her third published novel. Greta is the contest coordinator for the 2007 Arizona Authors Association's Literary Contest. She is the current Creative Writing Chair of the West Valley American Association of University Women Branch and editor of the Branch newsletter Currents. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women 2007.

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