The book won an Agatha Award for Best Mystery Non-Fiction and the two authors were nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar for Best Critical-Biographical work. His first book, co-written with Jean Swanson, was By a Woman’s Hand. He currently lives in Jackson, Mississippi. in library science at the University of North Texas in 1992. He was a medical librarian at the Texas Medical Center for over twenty years in Houston, Texas, and was general manager of the Murder by the Book bookstore in Houston, Texas, from 1996 to 2005. He attended Rice University where he obtained a doctoral degree in 1986. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Delta State University in 1980 and went on to obtain a master’s degree at Delta State in 1981. He was born in Calhoun City and grew up on a farm in the Pleasant Grove community in Grenada County.
Dean James is a Mississippi writer whose family has been in Grenada County since 1831 (before it was even a county).
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