Laura Lippman & Sujata Massey in Conversation with Angie Kim, Sponsored by the Authors Guild

Friday, March 6, 3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. ET

Ballroom I, Baltimore Convention Center, Level 400

Join us to celebrate some of Baltimore’s greatest living authors as Laura Lippman and Sujata Massey appear in conversation with Angie Kim. After brief readings, we will enjoy a discussion of the craft of creating great crime and mystery fiction, the unique ability of genre fiction to address social justice issues, and how Lippman and Massey have built elaborate fictional worlds based in reality. .

Panelist bios:

Laura Lippman is a New York Times best-selling novelist who has been called one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. In 2025, she was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America. She has published 26 novels, two short story collections, a book of essays, and one children's book. Her work has won or been shortlisted for every major prize given to crime novelists working in English. A limited series based on her 2019 novel Lady in the Lake was released by Apple TV in 2024 starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram. Laura lives in Baltimore and New Orleans.

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Sujata Massey is the author of fourteen novels, two novellas and numerous short stories that have been published in eighteen countries. Her novels have won the Agatha, Lefty, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark prizes and been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, and Harper Lee literary awards. Sujata writes mystery and suspense fiction set in pre-Independence India, as well as a modern mystery series set in Japan. Born in England to parents from India and Germany, Sujata was raised primarily in St. Paul, Minnesota, although her home for almost thirty years has been Baltimore, Maryland.

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Angie Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls, a GMA and Barnes & Noble book club pick, winner of the Virginia Literary Award, and Oprah Daily’s #1 novel of 2023. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award and was named one of the 100 best mysteries and thrillers of all time by Time. A Korean immigrant who moved to Baltimore in middle school, Kim studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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