In conversation with Professor Kay Saunders
The Woman in the Window
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
Action/Crime / Thriller/Mystery
220
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Noir fiction that would make Hitchcock proud. Number 1 NYTimes Bestseller. Gripping thriller. Sold in 40 territories around the world and currently in development as a major film at Fox.
A.J. Finn (US) spent a decade working in publishing in both New York and London, with a particular emphasis on thrillers and mysteries. The Woman in the Window was inspired by a range of experiences: A.J. Finn’s lifelong love affair with suspense fiction, from the Sherlock Holmes stories that he devoured as a child, to the work of Patricia Highsmith, whom he studied at the graduate level at Oxford, his passion for classic cinema, especially the films of Alfred Hitchcock; and his struggles with agoraphobia and depression. The result is a psychological thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Kate Atkinson.
#Artist
A.J. Finn (US)
A.J. Finn is the author of the number one New York Times and international bestseller The Woman in the Window, sold in 43 territories worldwide. A film version starring Amy Adams (Arrival, American Hustle) and directed by Joe Wright (Darkest Hour, Atonement) is currently in production in New York City.
Finn researched detective fiction as a PhD student at Oxford. For a decade he was a book editor and publisher in London and New York, where he acquired or published J. K. Rowling, Michael Robotham, Peter Robinson, Tina Fey, and Patricia Cornwell, as well as the Agatha Christie estate.
He lives in New York and is currently at work on his second novel.
#Moderator
Prof Kay Saunders
Professor Kay Saunders AM is a widely published author and historian.
