David Housewright
Selected Bibliography
Penance (1995)
Practice to Deceive (1997)
A Hard Ticket Home (2004)
Dead Boyfriends (2007)
Jerry’s Gold (2009)
Curse of the Jade Lily (2012)
The Devil and the Diva (with Renee Valois, 2012)
Stealing the Countess (2016)
What the Dead Leave Behind (2017)
Dead Man’s Mistress (2019)
David Housewright (February 7, 1955-) is a Minnesota crime fiction writer. He grew up in St. Paul, writing plays and stories; he even “published” one of his stories on a hand-cranked printing press that his parents bought for him. Housewright attended the University of St. Thomas and then spent many years working in journalism and advertising before returning to creative writing. His first novel, Penance, was published when he was forty years old.
Housewright is best known for two series of crime novels, the Holland Taylor series and the Rushmore McKenzie series. He has won three Minnesota Book Awards and the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Housewright has also written a few standalone novels and several short stories. Sometimes, he teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, but his true passion remains writing.
More information on David Housewright from the Minnesota Writers Directory.