We always stress 'Supporting Local' in our shopping and dining, so why not support our local authors as well? We are from the same place that many successful authors call home. Looking to binge through another author's books? Try some of these local authors.
Listed below are a few authors that are from Maryland. Do you have any recommendations for me? Email mkotelchuck@whatsupmag.com with your most recent read and a quick review about it to be featured!
Tom Clancy - Baltimore: In 1947, Tom Clancy was born in Baltimore. Clancy stayed in Baltimore and attended Loyola High School in Towson before he went on to Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland) where he obtained his bachelor's degree in English literature. It was another 13 years before he started his literary career by writing The Hunt for Red October. This was the first of 18 books written in the Jack Ryan series. Jack Ryan became a Prime Video television series in 2018 staring John Krasinski. Clancy wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books in his lifetime, in 2013 he passed away from heart failure. Fun Fact: Tom Clancy was a part owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
Laura Lippman - Columbia: Laura Lippman was born and raised in Columbia, Maryland. After leaving the state to attend Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, Lippman promptly returned to Maryland and lived in Baltimore, where she still resides. New York Times best selling authors have to start somewhere right? For more than half of her 20 years in journalism, Laura Lippman was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and now is the author of the award-winning Tess Monaghan series. The original book of the series, Baltimore Blues, introduces Tess, a former Baltimore reporter who must solve the murder of a notorious attorney. Lippman has published 12 books in the Tess Monaghan series as well as 10 standalone novels.
Nora Roberts - Silver Spring: Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring and has since settled in Boonsboro (Washington County). Roberts picked up her pen for the first time to write during the blizzard of February 1979 and it took just 2 years before Irish Thoroughbred was published. Nora published six books that year and since has come out with an average of six new romance novels each year. You can regularly find Nora Roberts on the New York Times Best Seller list.
