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S. J. Rozan (born 1950) is an American architect and writer of detective fiction and thrillers, based in New York City. She also co-writes a paranormal thriller series under the pseudonym Sam Cabot with Carlos Dews. Life S.J. (Shira Judith) Rozan was born in 1950 in the Bronx, New York. She grew up with two sisters and a brother, and has a passion for basketball. She graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree, and received a master's in architecture from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a lifelong New Yorker and currently lives in Lower Manhattan. Before her career as an architect, Rozan also worked as a janitor, in jewelry sales, painting houses, book sales, bread baking, as an advertising copywriter, and as a self-defense instructor. As an architect, she became project manager for a New York firm working on socially useful projects. She said, "That life was exactly what I wanted, but it wasn't making me happy.... So I decided to go back to this idea I'd had of writing a crime novel." Rozan's books are set in New York City or start out there. Her P.I. series features Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, and the books alternate point of view between the two characters. About them she has revealed, "Lydia is me as I was when I was her age. She’s optimistic and full of energy. She believes that the world can be saved.... Bill, on the other hand, is me as I am now—on a bad day. He’s been through enough bad stuff in his life that he knows what can’t be done." In 2013 she co-authored a book with Carlos Dews under the name Sam Cabot. This book was set in Rome and is the first in a series of historical thrillers. In addition to crime novels, since 2004, Rozan has written haiku that she posts each weekend to her blog. They are composed as she makes observations, but aren't written down until she gets home. Rozan speaks, lectures, and teaches widely, including in January 2003 as an invited speaker at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; as a Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Fall 2006; at the 2009 National Book Festival; speaking about "Every Story Is a Mystery" at the Central Library in Indianapolis in October 2009; as keynote speaker at the California Crime Writers Conference in June 2011; in Fall 2011 as an instructor at the New York Crime Fiction Academy; as a Writer-in-Residence at Singapore Management University in February 2014; as Author-in-Residence & Guest Instructor at 2014 Novel-In-Progress Bookcamp; and during summers in Assisi, Italy at Art Workshop International as a Writing Instructor. She gives freely of her time to other writers as shown by acknowledgments in, among others, the following referenced books: Awards and honors In 2016, Rozan received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Publications Lydia Chin / Bill Smith series China Trade ·chin· (1994), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-11254-8 Concourse ·smith· (1995), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-13453-3 Mandarin Plaid ·chin· (1996), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-14674-4 No Colder Place ·smith· (1997), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-16811-X A Bitter Feast ·chin· (1998), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-19259-2 Stone Quarry ·smith· (1999), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-20912-6 Reflecting the Sky ·chin· (2001), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-24427-4 Winter and Night ·smith· (2002), St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-24555-6 The Shanghai Moon ·chin· (2009), St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-24556-6 On the Line ·smith· (2010), St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-54449-2 Ghost Hero ·chin· (2011), St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-54450-8 Paper Son ·chin· (2019), Pegasus Crime. ISBN 978-1-643-13129-0 The Art of Violence ·smith· (2020) Pegasus Crime. ISBN 978-1-643-13531-1 Family Business ·chin· (2021) Pegasus Crime. ISBN 978-1-643-13829-9 The Mayors of New York ·smith· (2023), Pegasus Crime. ISBN 978-1-639-36525-8 Standalone novels/chapters Absent Friends (2004), Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-385-33803-1 In This Rain (2006), Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-385-33804-2 "Chapter 4", The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller, idea by Jeffery Deaver, audiobook: ITW & Audible.com (chapters originally delivered serially: Sept 25–Nov 13, 2007)      also in: Center Point Publishing Large Print (2010), pp. 69–77. ISBN 978-1-60285-676-9      and in: Part I, Watchlist: A Serial Thriller, Vanguard Press (2010). ISBN 978-1593155599 "Chapter 13", Inherit the Dead: A Novel (serial) (2013), intro. Lee Child, Touchstone, pp. 171–180. ISBN 978-1-4516-8475-9 Writing as Sam Cabot Blood of the Lamb: A Novel of Secrets (2013), Blue Rider. ISBN 978-0-399-16295-4 Skin of the Wolf: A Novel (2014), Blue Rider. ISBN 978-0-399-16296-1 Sam Cabot books are co-written with Carlos Dews Short story collections A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events (2009), Crippen & Landru. ISBN 978-1-932009-89-7 A volume of nine previously published short stories: "Film at Eleven" · "Hoops" · "Seeing the Moon" · "Passline" · "Night Court" · "Subway" · "A Tale About a Tiger" · "Childhood" · "Double-Crossing Delancey" Building and Other Stories (2011). An e-book collection of seven previously published short stories: "Building" · "Night Court" · "Going Home" · "Silverfish" · "Seeing the Moon" · "I Seen That" · "Sunset" Short stories In 2022, Rozan was recognized with the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement by the Short Mystery Fiction Society. "Heartbreak" ·smith· (e-book single available)P.I. Magazine, Winter 1990, Vol.3 No.1, pp. 16–21. "Once Burned" ·smith; chin·P.I. Magazine, Winter 1991, Vol.4 No.1, pp. 18–26.      also in: Lethal Ladies (1996), ed. Barbara Collins & Robert J. Randisi "Prosperity Restaurant" ·chin· (e-book single available)The Fourth Woman Sleuth Anthology (1991), ed. Irene Zahava, pp. 111–135. ISBN 0-89594-521-5      also in: Lethal Ladies II (1998), ed. Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi "Hot Numbers" ·smith·P.I. Magazine, Spring 1992, Vol.5 No.1, pp. 16–23. "Body English" ·chin; smith· (e-book single available)Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 1992, Vol.37 No.12, pp. 24–41.      also in: Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006), ed. Linda Landrigan      and in: Women of Mystery II (1994), ed. Cynthia Manson "Film at Eleven" ·chin·Deadly Allies II (1994), ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, pp. 202–229. ISBN 0-385-42468-X      also in: A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events (collected stories) "Birds of Paradise" ·smith· (e-book single available)Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 1994, Vol.39 No.13, pp. 142–154.      also in: Wild Crimes (2004), ed. Dana Stabenow "Hoops" ·smith·Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 1996, Vol.107 No.1, pp. 40–68.      also in: The Year’s 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories; Sixth Annual Ed (1997), ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg      and in: The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, ed. Robert B. Parker &.... Discover the Harlan Coben Otto Penzler popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Harlan Coben Otto Penzler books.