Francine Mathews

Fast Facts:

• Francine attended Princeton and received her Master's Degree from Stanford.
  
  
  
• While attending Princeton, Francine majored in European History. During her senior year she won an Arthur W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities.
  
  
  
• Francine worked for four years as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She counts being part of the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as one of her career highlights.
  
  
  
• Francine Mathews left the CIA in 1993, a year after writing her first book.
  
  
  
• John McPhee is one of Francine's writing influences.
  
  
  
• Francine began writing mysteries "on a dare." Her first mystery novel was DEATH IN THE OFF-SEASON, which launched the Meredith Folger series.
  
  
  
• Caroline Carmichael, a lead character in BLOWN, appeared in Mathews' first espionage thriller, THE CUTOUT.
  
  
  
• Francine also writes a series of Jane Austen mysteries under the name Stephanie Barron.
  
  
  

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