Louise Penny was born on July 1,1958 and is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec.
10 Facts About Louise Penny
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Louise Penny was born in Toronto, Canada, on July 1,1958.
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Louise Penny's mother was an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular liking for crime fiction, and Louise grew up reading mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L Sayers, and Michael Innes.
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Louise Penny earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1979.
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Louise Penny started a historical novel but had difficulty finishing it, and eventually switched to mystery writing.
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Louise Penny entered her first novel, Still Life, in the "Debut Dagger" competition in the United Kingdom, placing second out of 800 entries.
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Louise Penny continues to write, garnering major crime novel award nominations for almost every one of her novels and subsequently winning several of those awards.
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In 2009, Louise Penny helped to launch a new award for aspiring Canadian mystery writers, the Unhanged Arthur for Best Unpublished First Novel.
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At the start of her broadcasting career, Louise Penny took postings at locations far from friends and family, and to help deal with feelings of loneliness and isolation, she increasingly turned to alcohol.
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For several years, Louise Penny resisted selling the TV or movie rights to her books, afraid of losing creative control of her characters.