Phyllis A. Whitney
3 September 1903 - 8 February 2008
Phyllis Ayame Whitney was born in Yokohama, Japan, the daughter of American parents, and spent her early years in Asia. She began writing early in her teens. In 1918, upon the death of her father, she travelled with her mother to Berkeley, California, and then to San Antonio, Texas. A few years later her mother died, and she moved to Chicago to live with her aunt. After graduating from high school, she began to write seriously, and began to sell her stories to newspapers and pulp magazines while supporting herself by working for The Chicago Public Library and bookstores in Chicago. She married her first husband in 1934. During the 1940s she was a children's book editor for both the Chicago Sun and the Philadelphia Enquirer. Her first book, a mystery for children called A Place for Ann, was published in 1941. Over the course of her career, she wrote more than 70 novels. In 1961, her book The Mystery of the Haunted Pool won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile novel, and she received another in 1964 for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand. In 1975, she was elected President of the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1988, she was awarded its Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.
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Window on the Square
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Black Amber
13 editions - first published in 1964 Borrow -
The trembling hills
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The Quicksilver Pool
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Feather on the moon
12 editions - first published in 1988 DAISY -
Listen for the whisperer
12 editions - first published in 1971 Borrow -
Domino
12 editions - first published in 1979 Borrow -
The turquoise mask
12 editions - first published in 1974 Checked out -
Blue Fire
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Rainsong
11 editions - first published in 1984 Borrow -
Snowfire
10 editions - first published in 1973 -
Thunder Heights
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The ebony swan
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Sea Jade
9 editions - first published in 1964 Borrow -
The stone bull
9 editions - first published in 1977 Borrow -
Skye Cameron
9 editions - first published in 1957 Borrow -
Rainbow in the mist
9 editions - first published in 1989 Borrow -
Star flight
9 editions - first published in 1993 Borrow -
The singing stones
9 editions - first published in 1990 Borrow -
Flaming tree
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The winter people
8 editions - first published in 1969 Borrow -
Emerald
8 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
The golden unicorn
8 editions - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Poinciana
8 editions - first published in 1980 Borrow -
Columbella
8 editions - first published in 1966 Borrow -
Silversword
8 editions - first published in 1987 Borrow -
Silverhill
8 editions - first published in 1967 Borrow -
Hunter's Green
8 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow -
Seven Tears for Apollo
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The moonflower
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The Fire and the Gold
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Lost Island
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Daughter of the stars
7 editions - first published in 1994 Borrow -
Dream of orchids
7 editions - first published in 1985 Borrow -
The glass flame
6 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow -
Spindrift
6 editions - first published in 1975 Borrow -
Step to the Music
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Secret of the Samurai Sword
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Mystery on the Isle of Skye
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The red carnelian
5 editions - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Amethyst dreams
5 editions - first published in 1997 Borrow -
Secret of the Tiger's Eye
5 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow -
The highest dream
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Willow Hill
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A Long Time Coming
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Creole Holiday
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Secret of Goblin Glen
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Vermilion
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Nobody Likes Trina
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Ever after
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The Mystery of the Gulls
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Mystery of Black
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Linda's Homecoming
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Mystery of the Haunted Pool
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The Mystery of the Scowling Boy
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The Mystery of the Angry Idol
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Guide to fiction writing
3 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
Mystery of the hidden hand
3 editions - first published in 1963 Borrow -
Writing juvenile fiction
2 editions - first published in 1947 -
The Secret of the Missing Footprint
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El Viento En Las Rocas
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Seven Tear for Apollo
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Mystery of the Crimson Ghost
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Mystery of the golden horn
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Mystery of Golden Horn
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Two Romantic Suspense Novels by Phyllis A. Whitney
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La Isla del Recuerdo
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Mystery of Strange
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The glass flame
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Black amber
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Star Flight
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Silverhill
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Listen for the whisper
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
Vermilion
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
The golden unicorn
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
Columbella
1 edition - first published in 1967 -
Phyllis Whitney's Masterful Mysteries
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Spindrift
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
The stone bull
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Silverhill
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Poinciana
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
The Glass flame
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Snowfire
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The turquoise mask
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
The trembling hills
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Black amber
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Thunder heights
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Seven tears for Apollo
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Red Carnelian Whitney
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Listen for the whisperer
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Black diamonds
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
Emerald
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Thunder Heights
1 edition - first published in 1991 DAISY -
Domino
1 edition - first published in 1979 Borrow -
Emerald
1 edition - first published in 1983 Borrow -
The fire and the gold
1 edition - first published in 1956 Borrow -
Reader's digest condensed books
1 edition - first published in 1980 Borrow -
Sea Jade
1 edition - first published in 1966 Borrow -
The singing stones
1 edition - first published in 1991 Borrow -
Vermillion
1 edition - first published in 1981 Borrow
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Alternative names
- Phyllis Whitney
- Phyllis A Whitney
- PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY
- Phyllis A 1903- Whitney
- Phyllis Ayame Whitney
- A Phyllis Whitney
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| November 11, 2010 | Edited by George | merge authors |
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| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |