Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an American-born English author of children's fiction, best known for her Murder Most Unladylike series. She has spoken of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work.
Early life
Stevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has dual US and UK citizenship.[1] She attended The Dragon School[2] and Cheltenham Ladies College.[1] Her father, Robert Stevens, was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford,[3] and her mother worked at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum.[4] Her grandfather was the literary critic Wayne C. Booth.[5]
Stevens studied English at the University of Warwick, later gaining an MA in crime fiction from King's College London.[5] She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge
