Elizabeth Fenwick Way

Elizabeth Fenwick Way
Born
Elizabeth Jane Phillips

(1916-04-05)April 5, 1916
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
DiedNovember 20, 1996(1996-11-20) (aged 80)
Lakewood, Colorado, U.S.
Other names
  • Elizabeth Fenwick
  • E. P. Fenwick

Elizabeth Fenwick Way (April 5, 1916 – November 20, 1996),[1] who wrote as Elizabeth Fenwick and E. P. Fenwick, was an American mystery writer, novelist, and author of books for children.[2] Her 1963 mystery novel The Make-Believe Man was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.[3]

In 1948, Way became friends with writer Flannery O'Connor while they were living at Yaddo, a writers' community in Saratoga Springs, New York. According to O'Connor biographer Melissa Simpson, O'Connor "... cultivated several enduring friendships while at Yaddo, the most notable being her friendship with Elizabeth Fenwick Way ...". When O'Connor left Yaddo for New York City in 1949, Way helped her find an apartment.[4]

Some of Way's manuscripts and papers are held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.[5]

  1. ^ "Elizabeth Fenwick". Detective Book Club. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  2. ^ John M. Reilly, ed. (1980). Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers. MacMillan. pp. 548–49. ISBN 0-333-30107-2.
  3. ^ "Edgars Database". Mystery Writers of America. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  4. ^ Simpson, Melissa (2005). Flannery O'Connor: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood. p. 14. ISBN 0-313-32999-0.
  5. ^ "Mystery and Suspense Fiction Subject Guide: Elizabeth Fenwick". Boston University. Retrieved August 30, 2019.