Elliott Mackle
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Elliott Mackle

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Elliott Mackle’s first novel, It Takes Two (2003), was compared to the work of Christopher Bram and Carl Hiaasen. The “why-done-it” crime story was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Mates, set about two years after the conclusion of that novel, is fourth in the Caloosa Club mystery series. Mackle served four years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, achieving the rank of captain. He was stationed in California, Italy and Libya, the latter the setting for Captain Harding and His Men (2012), a sequel to the multiple-award-winning Captain Harding’s Six-Day War (2011). Welcome Home, Captain Harding (2013), the concluding novel in the trilogy, is set in California. Hot off the Presses (2010), a romantic exposé of the racial and sexual politics surrounding the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, is based in part on Mackle’s adventures as a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The newspaper’s dining critic for a decade, he also reported on military affairs, travel and the national restaurant scene. He has written for Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, Los Angeles Times, Florida Historical Quarterly, Atlanta and Charleston magazines and was a longtime columnist at Creative Loafing, the South’s leading alternative newsweekly. Mackle wrote and produced segments for Nathalie Dupree’s popular television series, New Southern Cooking, and authored a drama about gay bashing for Georgia Public Television. Along the way, he managed a horse farm, served as a child nutrition advocate for the State of Georgia, volunteered at an AIDS shelter, was founding co-chair of Emory University’s GLBT alumni association and taught critical and editorial writing at Georgia State University. A native of Miami, he lives in Atlanta.
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