Davis, Mildred B.

PERSONAL: Married Jerome Davis (an engineer); children: Nancy, Amy, Katherine Davis Roome, Pamela. Ethnicity: "White." Hobbies and other interests: Travel (Japan, Turkey, England, France, Italy, Norway, Hong Kong, Thailand, Hawaii), tennis, skiing, jogging, swimming.

ADDRESSES: Home—Bedford, NY. Agent—McIntosh & Otis, Inc., 475 5th Ave., New York, NY 10017.

CAREER: Writer. Active in community affairs.

MEMBER: Authors League of America.

AWARDS, HONORS: Mystery Writers of America award for best first novel, for The Room Upstairs.

WRITINGS:

NOVELS

The Room Upstairs, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1948.

They Buried a Man, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1953.

The Dark Place, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1955.

The Voice on the Telephone, Random House (New York, NY), 1964.

The Sound of Insects, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1966.

Strange Corner, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1967.

Walk into Yesterday, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1967.

The Third Half, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1969.

Three Minutes to Midnight, Random House (New York, NY), 1971.

Tell Them What's-Her-Name Called, Random House (New York, NY), 1975.

Scorpion, Random House (New York, NY), 1977.

(With daughter, Katherine Davis) Lucifer Land (historical novel), Random House (New York, NY), 1977.

Also author of Suicide Hour, 1962.

SIDELIGHTS: Mildred B. Davis once told CA: "I got started writing at about the age of ten because my favorite activity was always reading. I chose mysteries because they were my favorite books. And of course, all writers express personal views in their writing—the way they feel about certain kinds of people, about political and social views."