About Marjorie

Award-winning author Marjorie McCown spent more than twenty years in Hollywood working on the costume design teams for major studio films including Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and X-Men: Days of Future Past before turning to fiction. A Midwesterner by birth, she trained in theater and fashion design at the University of Virginia and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, beginning her career in theater and opera before joining the film industry.

That behind-the-scenes experience inspired her Hollywood Mystery novels, which explore the world of filmmaking through the lens of crime and character.

Her debut novel, Final Cut (Crooked Lane Books, 2023), was an Amazon Editors’ Pick and was named one of the Best Cozy Mysteries of the Year by Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. The second book in the series, Star Struck (2024), continued the exploration of Hollywood’s high-stakes film world. Both novels received PenCraft Best Seasonal Book Awards, were Silver Falchion Award Top Picks, and appeared on the Los Angeles Public Library’s “Favorite Books of the Year” list.

Marjorie is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters-in-Crime and serves on the board of the Sisters-in-Crime LA chapter.

When she’s not writing, she loves connecting with readers, sharing behind-the-scenes Hollywood stories, and celebrating the creative communities she is so grateful for.