Thrillers: 100 Must Reads (July 2010)
examines seminal works of suspense in essays
by David Baldacci, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver
and Sharp among others. Read more...

The Author

Kathleen Sharp is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Parade, Playboy, Fortune, Elle, Self, and many others. Some of her pieces for Salon and Los Angeles Magazine have been produced or optioned for film or television.

She writes narrative non-fiction such as the acclaimed biography Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood (Carroll & Graf, 2004), which was praised by Vanity Fair, the New York Post, and others. It became the basis of the theatrically released film documentary The Last Mogul (Think Film 2005). Her first book, In Good Faith (St. Martin’s Press, 1995), hit bookstores just as 60 Minutes aired the tale. She’s also contributed to several anthologies on women, the West, and literature (but not yet one on money).

Sharp has won several honors for her work, including six awards from Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists for her investigative work and feature writing, a journalism fellowship toward her Masters degree in Business Administration and, most recently, a health-care fellowship from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication.