Lee Horsley came to England in 1965 as a Fulbright Scholar and has lived here ever since. She did her postgraduate work at the University of Reading and the University of Birmingham, and had a research post at Wadham College, Oxford, 1971-73. She has been a lecturer at the University of Lancaster since 1974 - currently teaching twentieth-century British and American literature and two specialist crime courses. Over the last fifteen years, she has written Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (1990), Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995), and The Noir Thriller (2001). In collaboration with her daughter, Katharine, she has written several articles on crime fiction and started a highly successful website devoted to the academic study of crime fiction and film, www.crimeculture.com; she is also co-editor and webmaster for www.pulporiginals.com, which aims to make some of the best mid-century American crime paperbacks available as e-books.