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Val McDermid is a British crime writer, best known for her series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan. She was born on 4 June 1955 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
McDermid attended St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied English Literature. After graduating, she worked as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Scotsman.
McDermid's first novel, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. Since then, she has written over thirty novels, including the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, the Lindsay Gordon series, and the Kate Brannigan series. She has also written several stand-alone novels, including A Place of Execution, which won the 2000 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.
McDermid has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in crime writing. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to literature.
As of 2021, Val McDermid's net worth is estimated to be approximately $10 million.
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69 years old |
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Gemini |
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4 June 1955 |
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4 June |
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Kirkcaldy, Scotland |
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Scottish |
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Val McDermid Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Val McDermid's Husband?
Her husband is Jo Sharp (m. 2016)
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Val McDermid Net Worth
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Val McDermid's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Val McDermid Social Network
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In 2016, McDermid captained a team of crime writer challengers on the TV quiz Eggheads, beating the Eggheads and winning £14,000.
On 23 October 2016 McDermid, who is gay, married Jo Sharp, a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow and McDermid's partner of two years.
She sponsors the McDermid Stand in Stark's Park, Raith Rovers ground in Kirkcaldy. This endeavour was in honour of her father, a scout for the club. A year after sponsoring the stand, she became a board member of the club, and starting in 2014 her website became Raith's shirt sponsor.
McDermid is a Raith Rovers supporter. She formerly lived in both Stockport and Northumberland with three cats and a border terrier dog. Since early 2014 she has lived in Stockport and Edinburgh.
Northumbria Police arrested Sandra Botham, a 64-year-old woman from the Hendon area of Sunderland, on suspicion of assault. Botham was convicted of common assault on 10 July 2013, received a 12-month community order with supervision and was made to pay £50 compensation and a £60 victim surcharge. She was also given a restraining order forbidding her from contacting McDermid for an undefined period of time. The Northern Echo reported that Botham's actions were motivated by McDermid's 1994 non-fiction book, A Suitable Job for a Woman, as Botham claimed that the book contained a passage that besmirched her and her family.
On 6 December 2012 a woman poured ink over McDermid during an event at the University of Sunderland. McDermid was signing books, and a woman asked her to autograph a Top of the Pops annual which contained a picture of the disgraced late TV presenter Jimmy Savile. After McDermid reluctantly agreed the woman threw ink at her and ran out of the room. McDermid said the incident would not stop her from doing signings.
McDermid was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunderland in 2011. She is co-founder of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, part of the Harrogate International Festivals. In 2016 she captained a team of St Hilda's alumnæ to win the Christmas University Challenge. In 2017, McDermid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
In 2010, she was still living between Northumberland and Manchester with publisher Kelly Smith, with whom she had entered into a civil partnership in 2006.
After graduation she became a journalist and worked briefly as a dramatist. Her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery occurred in 1987.
Val McDermid, FRSE, FRSL (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill.
