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Catherine Aird

Born

in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1930

Website

http://www.catherineaird.com/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Catherine Aird (born 1930) is the pseudonym of author K.H. McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and story collections. Her writings are similar to those of Vivien Armstrong, M C Beaton and Pauline Bell.

Aird is creator of the Sloan and Crosby novels, set in the CID department of the fictional Berebury, West Calleshire, England. She served as Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association from 1990-91. She holds an honorary M. A. from the University of Kent and received the M.B.E. for her services to the Girl Guide Association. She lives in England.

Apart from writing the successful Chronicles of Calleshire she has also written and edited a series of village histories and is Catherine Aird (born 1930) is the pseudonym of author K.H. McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and is the author of more than twenty crime ficti

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Catherine Aird: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

Part of the enjoyment of writing these “Classics” pieces is the chance to dig into my shelves, pull out authors I haven’t read in a long time, and discover after just a couple of chapters that, oh yes, that’s why I liked them so much.

Such a one is Catherine Aird.

Some of you are now saying, “Who?” Yet The New Yorker considered her “the very best in British mystery;’ The Times of London called her “never less than elegant and mischievously sharp;” the Washington Post said, “Aird’s intelligence shines through every sentence”—and the British Crime Writers’ Association gave her not one, but two, major awards, including their Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime’s contribution to the genre, putting her in the company of such writers as P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Sue Grafton, and Elmore Leonard.

Her Chronicles of Calleshire, twenty-four books published between 1966 and 2019 (yes! At the age of 89!) is a series of wry, pungent novels combining the police procedural with the intricate pu

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The Crime Writers’ Association

What, in relation to your writing, are you most proud of?

Probably my first published book The Religious Body

At what point in your life did you start to describe yourself as an author?

The first time I described myself as an author it was with greater certainty than the second. I was about 8 or 9 years old and I have a distinct memory of sitting at the kitchen table and writing a play in red ink in a school exercise book. (Mercifully it has not been preserved – the resurrection of juvenilia is a great worry to those of us who are not instinctive tidy-uppers.)

The second time is more difficult to pinpoint. It just comes. For many years I simply thought of myself more of a writer than an author (although I would be hard put to define the distinction). On one occasion, though, I decided that ‘wordsmith’ might be more appropriate. I live next door to a railway line and one day a man from a gang who were working on the line came to my front door and said that he understood that I was a writer. I said as modestly as I could that I tried to be.