Baltimore Noir (25 page)

DAVID SIMON
is a former crime reporter with the
Baltimore Sun
and the author of
Homicide
and
The Corner,
two works of narrative nonfiction. He is also a writer and executive producer of HBO’s
The Wire
.

CHARLIE STELLA
played Strat-O-Matic baseball as a kid, until his father put him on a twelve-step program to rein in his addiction. In Stella’s world (Strat-O-Matic), the Orioles beat his Mets in seven back in ’69 (when he was thirteen).

MARCIA TALLEY
is the Agatha and Anthony Award winning author of six novels featuring amateur sleuth Hannah Ives, set in Annapolis, Baltimore, and other locales around Maryland’s scenic Chesapeake Bay. She is author/editor of two star-studded collaborative serial novels,
Naked Came the Phoenix
and
I’d Kill For That
, and her short stories have appeared in more than a dozen collections.

JOSEPH WALLACE
has written more than fifteen books and dozens of articles on topics as diverse as baseball, natural history, medicine, and the invention of the light bulb. “Liminal” is his first piece of published noir. He’s grateful to Laura Lippman for requesting it, especially since he’s a lifelong New York Mets fan with vivid memories of the 1969 World Series.

ROBERT WARD
was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Los Angeles, where he writes fiction, screenplays, and television dramas. He is the author of six novels, including
Red Baker
winner of the Pen West Award for Best Novel. “Fat Chance” is about the pull of Charm City, with its neighborhoods and personal history, versus “success” in Los Angeles.

SARAH WEINMAN
is the crime-fiction columnist for the
Baltimore Sun
and the proprietor of the literary blog “Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind” (at
www.sarahweinman.com
). Her stories have appeared in several print and online publications, including
Dublin Noir
. She lives in Manhattan, only a Metroliner away from Baltimore.