Lucretia Grindle
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May 10, 1960
University of Oxford
Lucretia Grindle | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lucretia Walsh Grindle May 10, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) University of Oxford |
| Genre | Mystery fiction |
| Spouse | David Lutyens |
| Parents | Paul Davidson Grindle Patricia Walsh |
Lucretia Walsh Grindle (born May 10, 1960) is an American author of mystery fiction. She is signed to Macmillan Publishers.[1]
Lucretia Grindle is one of four children of newspaper reporter turned entrepreneur Paul Davidson Grindle and his wife Patricia née Walsh. She has a sister and two brothers.[2] She was born in Boston MA, and spent her formative years living with her family either at her parents' American home in Sherborn, Massachusetts, or at their British home in the village of Benenden in Kent.[3] Her mother, who was born on the Apache Reservation below Jerome, Arizona, and who before her marriage was the head show girl at Ringling Brother's and Barnum and Bailey circus where she was the first woman to feature and solo in a mixed act of large cats, was the director of the Moat House Riding Academy also in Benenden.[3] Grindle attended school in both the US and UK, and was a Senior Fellow and graduated with a BA in religion from Dartmouth College. She subsequently studied Theology and Philosophy at Oxford University. On leaving Oxford she worked in London as a freelance journalist specializing in World War II Intelligence and "feature length profile work and sport"[4] – in the US, UK and Canada. She later owned, trained, and competed in the equestrian sport of Three Day Eventing, working with the US Equestrian Team's Young Riders Program throughout the 1990s, and with the Canadian Equestrian Federation through the Atlanta Olympics and European and World Games.[5]
