It is a life she is struggling to come to terms with. Her life has undergone some drastic changes, and not for the better, not since her spiteful ex-husband evicted her from the house she had so painstakingly restored in Savannah’s historic district. Savannah Blues: Weezie Floley, aka Eloise, is a feisty antique picker. Mary’s novels are often littered with wacky southern characters many of whom, she has admitted, might have been inspired by the people she has known over the years. Andrews’ novels have been nominated for numerous prizes, this including the Macavity, Edgar and Agatha Awards. Mary Kay Andrews is married to Tom, her high school sweetheart the pair has two children.

A lifelong junker that claims to know where every promising thrift store and flea market in the Southeastern United States is located, Mary Kay Andrews has made frequent appearances at various writing workshops, this including the Antioch Writer’s Workshop and Georgia University’s Harriet Austin Writer’s Workshop to mention but a few. It was in an attempt to make a complete break from her previous works that Kathy wrote ‘Savannah Blues’ under the name Mary Kay Andrews. After nearly ten years as a professional author, Andrews began to hear voices in her head, stories and characters that sought to find their way into the world but which where wholly different from anything she had ever written. Questioned about her decision to write under a pen name, Andrews described it as a turning point in her literary career. Mary Kay Andrews is a combination of her children’s names (her daughter Mary Kathleen and her son, Andy). She would go on to author ten mystery novels over the next eight years under her real name, Katy Hogan Trocheck, eventually making the switch to Mary Kay Andrews in 2002, this marking a transformation in her writing style. It wasn’t until 1991 that she put her career aside and chose to focus her efforts solely on writing fiction. With her professional journalism career starting in Savannah, Georgia, Andrews’ work frequently brought her into direct contact with real life murder trials, experiences such as this influencing the work she did on books like ‘Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil’.

She spent the next several years working as a reporter for various papers, at one time spending 11 years with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. +Biography Born in July 1954, Mary Kay Andrews graduated from the University of Georgia in 1976 with a degree in journalism. Born Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews is an American writer that has authored numerous bestsellers under the pen name.

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