Erin Hart
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Erin Hart | |
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 Erin Hart at Lake Inchiquin outside Corofin, County Clare, Ireland | |
| Born | September 1, 1958 Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Mayo High School Saint Olaf College University of Minnesota |
| Subject | Crime fiction |
| Notable awards | Friends of American Writers, RWA Best First Mystery |
| Spouse | Paddy O'Brien |
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Erin Hart (born September 1, 1958) is an American author of crime fiction.
Hart was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and raised in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Robert Hart, a mechanical engineer, and Nancy VanSteenhuyse Hart, a medical laboratory technician. She attended high school in Rochester, where she was involved in music and theater.
Hart's early career was in arts administration, at the Affiliated Arts Agencies of the Upper Midwest, now Arts Midwest, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She also worked as a freelance journalist, contributing theater reviews and arts features at the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Skyway News, among other publications. She also served as the on-air theater critic for Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program.
Hart lives in Saint Paul with her husband, Irish accordion player Paddy O'Brien, creator of the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Traditional Music, and author of a 2012 memoir, The Road From Castlebarnagh: Growing Up In Irish Music.[1][2]
