FANCY LIVING MAGAZINE. OCTOBER 2005. Page 51
COVER STORY
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Rochelle Krish at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, November, 2004.
Agatha-nominated Dream House is the "second smart, exciting" installment.” (PW) “An unqualified winner, "says Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. "An authentic, first-rate book… [Krich] has won for herself an important place in the pantheon of outstanding mystery writers" (Jerusalem Post). "Smoothly written…A charming new series…skillfully plotted, with a satisfying solution" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Molly Blume returns this October in Now You See Me. “Krich puts a sure finger on the painful spots where ordinary kids’ problems turn into murderous melodrama.” (Kirkus Review)
The daughter of Holocaust
survivors, Rochelle Krich was born in Germany and lived in New Jersey and New
York before she
moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1960. With a master’s
degree in English from U.C.L.A. she taught high school English for eighteen
years and chaired the English department at Yeshiva of Los Angeles High
Schools. She was a 1993 recipient of the Milken Families Foundation Award for
Distinguished Educator of the Year and the 1993 Samuel Belkin Memorial Award
for professional achievement. Past editor of the national Sisters in Crime
newsletter and a former director of the Mystery Writers of America, Krich
remains active in both organizations and is a member of the American Crime
Writers League and International Thriller Writers. She is the incoming
Sisters in Crime vice-president and president-elect. Rochelle Krich lives in Los
Angeles with her husband, children, and grandchildren.
Rochelle Krich: "When I was eleven or twelve, I developed an insatiable hunger for anything to do with mythology."
As a child, Rochelle Krich was a fervent reader, and her head was always in a book or spinning within stories and novels rainbows. She loved mysteries and became fond of Erle Stanley Gardner, du Maurier's Rebecca and Frances Parkinson Keyes. Agatha Christie played a leading role on the visionary stage of the little Rochelle who developed an insatiable appetite for mythological themes, and perhaps the sacred, the unreachable and the sublime. Her parents thought she was a visionary, more precisely a dreamer. "When I was eleven or twelve, I developed an insatiable hunger for anything to do with mythology. I read tome after tome, and would have my father drag the volumes up to the Catskills, where we vacationed summers, and drag them back to the city to renew them at the library. My mother loved to read, too. Saturday mornings, while my father and brother went to synagogue, I would lie next to her in my parent's bedroom and we read our books; a romance, a saga, a mystery.", said Rochelle Krich.