The trial inspired the author to try her own hand at the writing of mystery novels. Simpson saga felt like it had leaped out of a Ross Macdonald novel. She wasn’t simply fascinated by his crimes but also the figures that surrounded his situation, including a female prosecutor, a witty defense lawyer, and a racist police officer.Įven though the trial was real, the entire O.J. She remembers following his murder trial closely. Hellmann has attributed her decision to start writing to O.J.
Hellmann received a lot of praise because of the effort she had injected into the exploration of her heroine’s job at a time where most authors went out of their way to ignore or gloss over the daily routines associated with their protagonists’ careers. Hellmann used her experience in television news editing and video production to bring Ellie Foreman, one of her most popular characters, to life. When she finally sat down to write her novel, it came as no surprise that it featured an amateur sleuth who, like Hellmann, worked as a video producer.
This introduction to mystery ignited the author’s passion for the genre. Her mother changed everything when she threw a mystery novel (‘The Staked Goat’ by Jeremiah Healy) at Hellmann. But she eventually lost her taste for them because so many of them told the same stories.
When the author moved to Chicago, she fell so passionately in love with it that she not only adopted it as her home but also featured it prominently in her novels.Īs a child, Hellmann spent a lot of time reading thrillers. She worked with the team that covered the Watergate hearings.Īfter moving to Chicago, she joined a public relations firm before starting her own business (Fischer Hellmann Communications) in the mid-1980s. A former student of the National Cathedral School, Hellmann, who was raised in Washington DC, spent many years in Broadcast News, working for NBC as a film editor and eventually going over to National Public Affairs Center for Television in DC.
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