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BIOGRAPHY
Lyndsay Faye moved to Manhattan in 2005 to audition for work as a professional actress; she found her days more open when the powers that be elected to knock her day-job restaurant down with bulldozers. Her first novel Dust and Shadow: an Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H Watson is a tribute to the aloof genius and his good-hearted friend whose exploits she has loved since childhood. The book incorporates myriad contemporary accounts of Jack the Ripper’s gruesome crimes, focusing on the immense difficulty of tracing a serial killer amidst the widespread censure of the public and the press, without the aid of modern forensics. Faye's love of her adopted
city led her to research the origins of the New York
City Police Department, the inception of which
exactly coincided with the start of the Irish Potato
Famine. Her second and third novels, The Gods of Gotham and
its sequel, follow ex-bartender Timothy Wilde as he
navigates the rapids of his violently turbulent
city, his no less chaotic elder brother Valentine
Wilde, and the perils of learning police work in a
riotous and racially divided political landscape. Having grown
up in the Pacific Northwest, Lyndsay migrated to
Belmont, California and graduated from
Notre Dame de Namur University with a dual degree in
English
and Performance. She
worked as a professional actress throughout the Bay
Area for several years, nearly always in a
corset,and if not a corset then at the very least
heels and lined stockings. As
her
roles ranged from Scrooge’s lost
fiancée in A
Christmas Carol to
Lavinia DuPlessy in Andrew Lippa’s world premiere of
A
Little Princess,
whalebone prevented her from drawing a natural
breath for a number of years. She
is
a soprano with a high pop belt, if it interests you. Her
performances were generally reviewed well, with
adjectives ranging from “soaring” and
“delightful” to“sausage-curled.” Lyndsay and her husband
Gabriel
Lehner live just
north of Harlem with their cats, Grendel and
Prufrock. During
the few hours a day Lyndsay isn’t writing or
editing, she is most
often cooking, or sampling new kinds of microbrew,
or thinking of ways to
creatively mismatch her clothing.
She
is a very proud member of AEA, ASH, and BSI (Actor’s
Equity
Association, the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes,
and the Baker Street Irregulars, respectively). She
is hard at work on the sequel to The Gods of Gotham. |
