She divides her time between Atlanta and her restored beach cottage on Tybee Island, GA. After a brief hiatus in Raleigh, NC, she and her husband moved back to their old neighborhood in Atlanta, where they live in a restored 1926 Craftsman bungalow. Married to her high school sweetheart, she is the mother of two grown children and a proud grandmother. Mary Kay Andrews is a frequent lecturer and writing teacher at workshops including Emory University, The University of Georgia’s Harriet Austin Writer’s Workshop, the Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Workshop, and the Antioch Writer’s Workshop.Īs a lifelong “junker,” Mary Kay Andrews claims to know the location of every promising thrift store, flea market, and junkpile in the southeastern United States, plus many parts of Ohio. She left journalism after a ten-year stint as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She started her professional journalism career in Savannah, Georgia, where she covered the real-life murder trials which were the basis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. in journalism from the University of Georgia in 1976 (Go Dawgs!). Department Store School of Charm), Trocheck earned a B.A. Petersburg, Florida (and a diplomate of the Maas Bros.

Her mysteries have been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards.Ī native of St. Mary Kay Andrews also wrote ten critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series, under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. Mary Kay Andrews is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including her recently-released Sunset Beach and the much-loved The High Tide Club, Beach Town, Savannah Blues, and C hristmas Bliss, among many others.

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