Laurien Berenson is a successful American author, well-known for her mystery novels, psychological thrillers, romance novels, and young adult novels. She is particularly famous for writing the Melanie Travis Mysteries series, which has been published in several foreign languages and has won her a wide audience. Berenson began her writing career in 1983 and wrote her earlier novels under the pseudonym Laurien Blair. However, she later began writing stand-alone novels under her original name.
Throughout her career, Berenson has received numerous prestigious awards for her work. She has won the Maxwell Award four times, an honor presented to her by the Dog Writers Association of America. In addition, she has won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and has been nominated for the Agatha and Macavity awards on several occasions. Berenson's writing is highly regarded in the literary world, and her novels have been featured in numerous magazines and even the New York Times.
In addition to her successful writing career, Berenson is also an accomplished horsewoman and has had the opportunity to ride a horse down a New York city street. She has also traveled extensively and has had some unique experiences, such as curtsying to Princess Grace and eating snake in Kowloon. Berenson is a Connecticut native but currently lives with her husband on a farm in Kentucky, where they are surrounded by horses and dogs. She is the author of the new Senior Sleuths series, which features Peg Turnbull and Rose Donovan, a pair of seventyish sisters-in-law who are learning to put aside old grudges and myriad differences as they work together to solve mysteries.