In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() At the height of her prestige in the 1980s, she served as president of the Modern Language Association. Thanks in part to her prudent pseudonym, Heilbrun not only earned tenure in 1967 but went on to a remarkable academic career, publishing ten books of literary criticism, cultural studies, and biography. In the Last Analysis was nominated for the 1965 Edgar Award for best first novel, but to Heilbrun’s relief it didn’t win the honor would have blown her cover and most likely her chances at tenure. Kate drank and smoked and spoke her mind, despite rigid disapproval from her three hidebound older brothers. ![]() Unlike Heilbrun, Kate was single (though she would soon decide to marry her lover, assistant district attorney Reed Amhearst) and childless. In the Last Analysis introduced amateur sleuth Kate Fansler, an urbane English professor at an unnamed major Manhattan university. Under the pen name of Amanda Cross, Heilbrun published the resulting novel in 1964. ![]()
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