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Dean, Amber

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Amber Dean (1902-1985) was an American writer. She was born in Depew, New York, and married Norman J Getzin in 1926. Her papers are stored at the University of Rochester. Her series character was Albie Harris.

"I realized that my heart was in books. When I was nine, I had gone to hear a mystery writer, Amber Dean, talk at the library. She told how she typed her manuscript and sent it to a woman in a skyscraper who turned it into a book in New York. The image of sitting in a skyscraper reading books was burned into my retina. So I felt very guilty, but I called the oil company to say I wasn't coming. I had to go to New York." - Larry Ashmead in Publisher's Weekly

Amber Dean Getzin was born in Depew, New York, on December 12, 1902, of Canadian parentage. In the 1930's, she moved to Rochester with her husband Norman "Dutch" Getzin (d. 1976). Between 1944 and 1973 she wrote seventeen mystery novels under the pen name Amber Dean. In writing her novels, Mrs. Getzin drew from incidents in her personal life, background, and regional locality, most of her books being set in upstate New York.

Throughout her approximately thirty-year career as a writer, Amber Dean gave many lectures on writing mysteries to clubs, organizations, and libraries. Another of her concerns was Operation Morale, a volunteer organization that sent care packages to men serving in Vietnam during the war. She wrote numerous letters on behalf of Operation Morale to corporations and prominent individuals asking for donations. She was also involved in garden clubs, particularly the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State. She took horticultural classes and eventually became a judge for flower shows.

In 1979, Amber Dean began writing her memoirs, to be called Ten Miles East of Buffalo. A couple of the chapters were published in a condensed form in Upstate magazine in 1981. She also revised There's A Man In My Cistern, an unpublished manuscript, re-naming it Mrs. Neoga Is Late Again. She died on June 3, 1985 after a short illness.

The author's major fault lies in an overdose of melodrama, girls fainting, lying trussed in a bathtub filling slowly with water or having premonitions of danger which, of course, are never heeded. -- Mary Ann Grochowski