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If I could be anyone, I'd be...
Kathy Reichs
Here is her
bio from her website: Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times
bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her other
Temperance Brennan novels include Death
du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones,
Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones,
Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, and 206 Bones,
Spider Bones (August, 2010), and Flash and Bones (August, 2011). Dr.
Reichs is a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.
From teaching
FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and
identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic
anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her
mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the Office of the
Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and continues to do so for the
Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of
Québec. Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on
Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at
JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the identification of war dead from World
War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also assisted with identifying
remains found at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the 9/11
terrorist attacks.
Dr. Reichs is
one of only eighty-two forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American
Board of Forensic Anthropology. She served on the Board of Directors and as
Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the
American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and is currently a member of the
National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She is a Professor in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Dr. Reichs is
a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now
divides her time between Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Québec.
Website: http://kathyreichs.com/
She's a
forensic anthropologist and author. I absolutely love the TV show Bones and have read most of the Temperance
Brennan books. I don't know how she does all she does, but I just think she's
awesome.
A side note: My mom's name is Kathie Reich and librarians often mention Kathy Reichs when
her name comes up.
