Kelli Stanley Crime Fiction Writer

Kelli Stanley

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Author Biography

Kelli Stanley is an award-winning author of crime fiction (novels and short stories). She makes her home in Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco, a city she loves to write about. Kelli earned a Masters Degree in Classics, loves jazz, classic films, battered fedoras and speakeasies.
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Influences

Raymond Chandler
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Dashiell Hammett
Tennessee Williams
Cornell Woolrich

Favorite Books

Farewell, My Lovely (all Chandler, but this is a personal favorite)
The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure
Grapes of Wrath
Nightmare Alley
A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's short stories
Brave New World
The Great Gatsby
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and the rest of Jane Austen
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
We, the Living
David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House
Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders
Priest
The Aeneid
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Paradise Lost
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The works of Catullus
and many more ...

Favorite Authors

Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Cornell Woolrich
Thomas Hardy
Tennessee Williams
Jane Austen
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Aldous Huxley
Shakespeare
Virgil
Homer
Catullus
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
The Bronte Sisters
F. Scott Fitzgerald
and many more ...

What I'm Reading

The Battle for Spain, Antony Beevor

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Author Snapshot: Kelli Stanley

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Interview Transcript

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January Magazine

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January Magazine Author Snapshot: Kelli Stanley

Interviewer:

Linda L. Richards

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