Chelsea Cain

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

Chelsea Cain
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Cain in 2015
BornScript error: No such module "person date".
Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
DiedScript error: No such module "person date".
OccupationNovelist, columnist
Alma materUniversity of California at Irvine; University of Iowa
Period1996–present
Notable worksSweetheart, Heartsick, Evil at Heart
Website
chelseacain.com

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".

Chelsea Snow Cain (born February 5, 1972) is an American novelist. Her debut novel, "Heartsick", won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She is best known for her Archie Sheridan-Gretchen Lowell series of thrillers, which feature a Portland homicide detective with a troubled past.[1]

Biography

Cain was born February 5, 1972, in Iowa City, Iowa, and spent her early childhood on a hippie commune outside of Iowa City. Her father dodged the Vietnam draft and her parents lived "underground" for several years.[2]

Cain studied political science at the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote for the New University newspaper and became the opinion editor. After graduating in 1994, she attended the graduate school of journalism at the University of Iowa.[citation needed]

While at Iowa, she wrote a weekly column for The Daily Iowan.[3] Her master's thesis at the University of Iowa became Dharma Girl, a memoir about Cain's early childhood on the hippie commune. One of her professors presented it to several editors for review, and Seal Press picked it up as Cain's first published work. She was 24 years old.[4]

Cain is married to Marc Mohan, a former video store owner and film critic for The Oregonian. They have lived in Southeast Portland since 2006.[5] They have one daughter, Eliza.[6]

Career

After working as a creative director at a public relations firm in Portland for several years, Cain began writing humor books, including The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life (Chronicle Books, 2004), Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (Bloomsbury, 2005), and Does this Cape Make Me Look Fat? Pop-Psychology for Superheroes (Chronicle Books, 2006), which Cain co-wrote with her husband. Cain was, for a time, a weekly columnist for both Portland's alternative newspaper, The Portland Mercury, and Oregon's largest newspaper, The Oregonian.[7]

She wrote her first thriller, Heartsick, in 2004, and it was published on September 4, 2007. In a review in The New York Times, critic Janet Maslin wrote, "In a genre that is rife with copycatting, Ms. Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground."[8] In a blurb for the book, author Chuck Palahniuk wrote, "Chelsea Cain gives us the most compelling, most original serial killer since Hannibal Lecter.”[9]

Sweetheart and Evil at Heart: A Thriller followed as the second and third in the series, respectively. The New York Times critic called Sweetheart "sensual and engulfing."[10]

In March 2016, Cain began writing a new Marvel Comics series, Mockingbird, the first solo series about the character. The series ran for eight issues before cancellation.[11]

Cain is the creator of the comic book series Man-Eaters for Image Comics along with artists Kate Niemczyk and Lia Miternique.[12] Man-Eaters was criticized for failing to account for trans experiences as the plot revolves around a disease that impacts people based on sex-specific symptoms.[13] Cain's response was to print tweets criticizing her in subsequent issues of the book, which resulted in harassment and threats being aimed at her critics, and called into question the legality of publishing tweets.[14] She went on to ask for volunteers to do sensitivity reading, as she stated the book was expensive to produce and she could not offer any pay for the job.[15] Simon & Schuster published Man-Eaters: Tomorrow Belongs to You! in March 2020 and an additional five issue miniseries called Man-Eaters: The Cursed in July 2021.[16]

Accolades

  • Named 6th best book of the year (2008) by Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly for Heartsick and Sweetheart[17]
  • Amazon Mystery/Thriller of 2007 for Heartsick
  • Named one of Four Hot Authors for Fall 2007 by Entertainment Weekly
  • Heartsick optioned as a film in September 2007[citation needed]
  • Booksense 76 Pick for Heartsick
  • Barnes & Noble Developing Writer pick for Heartsick
  • New York Times Book Review editor's choice for Heartsick and Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: A Parody

Bibliography

  • Dharma Girl (1996)
  • Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture (1999)
  • The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life (2004)
  • Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: A Parody (2005)
  • Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat? Pop-Psychology for Super Heroes (2006)
  • Mockingbird – S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary #1 (2015)
  • Mockingbird #1–8 (2016)

Gretchen Lowell Series

  • Heartsick (2007)
  • Sweetheart (2008)
  • Evil At Heart (2009)
  • The Night Season (2011)
  • Kill You Twice (August 2012)
  • Let Me Go (August 2013)

Kick Lannigan Series

  • One Kick (August 2014)
  • Kick Back (unpublished)

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell | Series | Macmillan". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved February 6, 2026.
  2. ^ Dharma Girl (1996)
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."UI alumna Chelsea Cain reads Oct. 11 for 'Live at Prairie Lights'". University of Iowa. September 28, 2007. Archived from the original on February 6, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miller, Laura (November 17, 1996). "Iowa Fields Forever". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eastman, Janet (November 10, 2023). "Novelist Chelsea Cain puts historic Portland home with pink rooms up for sale at $1,250,000". The Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Heartsick". Macmillan Publishers. Archived from the original on October 18, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2008.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.admin (June 18, 2014). "Interview with Chelsea Cain - Strand Magazine". Strand Mag. Retrieved February 6, 2026.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Maslin, Janet (September 3, 2007). "His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 6, 2026.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Heartsick". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved February 6, 2026.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Finnerty, Amy (September 19, 2008). "Femme Fatale". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 6, 2026.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Marvel's MOCKINGBIRD is Cancelled with Issue 8's Release Today". October 19, 2016.
  12. ^ Man-Eaters webpage at Image Comics website. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Questioning Chelsea Cain's Feminist Agenda". June 10, 2019.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Punching Down: Chelsea Cain's reaction to fair criticism is unacceptable • AIPT". June 9, 2019.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chelsea Cain reprinted a reader's tweets without permission in MAN-EATERS #9 and then everything exploded". June 10, 2019.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Man-Eaters Volume 4: The Cursed. March 1, 2022. ISBN 978-1-5343-2112-0.
  17. ^ ew.com Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Entertainment Weekly.

Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.

Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Template:If then show|Template:If then show]].
  • No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.
  • No openlibrary ID.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Chelsea_Cain&oldid=6418300"