News

Jacqueline received the Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award. (April 2026)

The Comfort of Ghosts is an Edgar® Winner (Sue Grafton Memorial Award for Best Novel).

“Jacqueline Winspear Read a History of Cocaine as Research.”New York Times (June 2024)

Q&A for Crimereads, “Jacqueline Winspear Considers the Art of Historical Fiction.” (April 2023)

The White Lady gets a starred review from Booklist, Library Journal & Kirkus.

Listen to Jacqueline’s interview on The Secret Library Podcast, marking publication of the 17th novel in the Maisie Dobbs’ series. (March 2022)

Article in The Big Thrill: Up Close: Jacqueline Winspear. (February 2022)

Maisie Dobbs Screen Adaptation announced. (September 2021)

This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing is nominated for an Edgar® Award for Best Critical/Biographical work. (January 2021)

Maisie Dobbs was clue 24 Across in the New York Times Crossword on the 29th. (December 2020)

Jacqueline’s memoir listed by The New York Times as a New & Noteworthy Recent Title of Interest. (December 2020)

Jacqueline’s work is featured in the New York Times Book Review’s “Inside The List.” (April 2018)

When asked by Entertainment Weekly, “What book does your whole family love?” Chelsea Clinton replied, “We all love the Maisie Dobbs series. Jacqueline Winspear’s protagonist is indomitable and vulnerable, brilliant and kind.” (March 2018)

NPR’s Maureen Corrigan broadcast a retrospective of Jacqueline’s Maisie Dobbs series. (July 2014)

Elegy for Eddie named one of the “9 Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read” by Oprah Winfrey. (March 2012)

Essays & Guest Posts

“Wars and Moments in Time: A Brief Look at the Historical Scope of the Maisie Dobbs Series.”

Read Jacqueline’s article in Writers Digest, “A Love Letter to the Fountain Pen.” (March 2023)

Read Jacqueline’s post, “Children of War.” (March 2023)

Female First in the UK asked Jacqueline to write about why reading the mystery is good for us in uncertain times. (March 2022)

Jacqueline wrote about Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1942 meeting with women ferry pilots in WW2 Britain. (March 2022)

Article in CrimeReads: The Night Jacqueline Winspear Helped Her Father Steal a Christmas Tree. (December 2020)

Read Jacqueline’s essay, A Good Day To Remember Your Roots, for the UK’s Female First. (November 2020)

Jacqueline’s feature essay “Women On Fire,” about women working in wildfire management, was published in Shattering Glass, the first anthology from Nasty Woman Press. (June 2020)

Jacqueline’s feature essay, “Writing About War” was published in Private Investigations: Mystery Writers On The Secrets, Riddles and Wonders In Their Lives. (April 2020)

Jacqueline’s essay on Women War Correspondents—from Sapper Dorothy to the Citizen Journalists of today—was published on Lithub. (April 2020)

Jacqueline’s essay was published in AFAR magazine on adventures with her life-long friend and travel buddy! (October 2019)

Jacqueline’s essay about the heroines of World War 1 published in the Daily Beast. (July 2017)

Read Jacqueline’s essay: Maisie Dobbs 10th Anniversary Reflections(2013)

Read Jacqueline’s essay: From a Railway Carriage. (2007)

Read Jacqueline’s essay: Visit to the WW1 Battlefields of France and Flanders(2004)