About
Alison McMahan is a two-time Derringer Award nominee and an "Other Distinguished Mystery Stories" author in Best American Mystery Stories of 2018. Her short mysteries have appeared in numerous mystery anthologies and ThrillRide magazine. One of her non-fiction books, Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury 2002) was translated into Japanese and Spanish and adapted into the documentary, Be Natural (2018). She is a two-time Derringer finalist and chosen as one of the "Other Distinguished Mystery Stories" authors in Best American Mystery Stories of 2018. https://alisonmcmahan.com/
Featured Work
Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema
This is the story of the first woman filmmaker and a critical analysis of her work, based on McMahan's Ph.D. thesis, which won the Union Circle of Scholars Award in 1997 and the Women in Film Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival in 2004. It's been translated into Spanish and Japanese. A documentary, "Be Natural" was based on it in 2018.
