Editing Larry Millett

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'''Larry Millett''' (born 1947 in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]]) is an [[Americans|American]] [[journalist]] and [[author]]. He is the former (retired 2002) [[architecture|architectural]] critic for the ''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]'', a daily newspaper in [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Saint Paul, Minnesota]] and the author of several books on the history of architecture in [[Minnesota]]. He has also written a series of [[Sherlock Holmes]] mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s. The books feature the character Shadwell Rafferty who assists Holmes in his American investigations.

==Education==
Millett graduated from [[College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University|St. John's University]] in [[Collegeville, Minnesota]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[English studies|English]] in 1969. He received a [[Master of Arts|master's]] degree in English in 1970 from the [[University of Chicago]].

==Career==
Millett worked at the ''Pioneer Press'' from 1972 until 1984 when he had an opportunity to study architecture at the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]]. When he returned to St. Paul in 1985, he became the newspaper's first architecture critic. He has written articles for several historical and architectural magazines in the [[Midwest]], mostly focusing on works by [[Prairie School]] architects including [[Louis Sullivan]] and [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].

Millett's ''Lost Twin Cities'' is probably the best known of his works in the [[Minneapolis-St. Paul]] region largely because [[KTCA]], a local [[public television]] station, created a video documentary by the same name which covered a few of the buildings in the book. The video was narrated by [[Dave Moore (newscaster)|Dave Moore]], a noted area TV journalist, and is often replayed when the station is running a [[pledge drive]]. In 2014, Millet was interviewed by Peter Shea for the Institute for Advanced Study at the [[University of Minnesota]] in the [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Twin Cities]]. Millett has also been interviewed twice on the Northern Lights Minnesota Author Interview TV Series.

==External links==
*Interview with Peter Shea at the University of Minnesota, 2014 [https://archive.today/20140727014532/http://ias.umn.edu/2014/03/21/millett/]

==Bibliography==

===Nonfiction===
*''The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank'' ([[1985 in literature|1985]]) {{ISBN|0-87351-181-6}} & {{ISBN|0-87351-182-4}}
*''Lost Twin Cities'' ([[1992 in literature|1992]]) {{ISBN|0-87351-273-1}}
*''Twin Cities Then and Now'' ([[1996 in literature|1996]]) {{ISBN|0-87351-326-6}} & {{ISBN|0-87351-327-4}}
*''National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota'' (foreword, [[2003 in literature|2003]]) {{ISBN|0-87351-448-3}}
*''Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphic Era'' ([[2004 in literature|2004]]) {{ISBN|0-87351-504-8}}
*''AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul'' (Paperback) (2007) {{ISBN|0-87351-540-4}}
*''Murder Has a Public Face'' (2008)
*''AIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis'' (2010) {{ISBN|0873517202}}
*''Once There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities'' (2011)
*''Minnesota's Own'' (2014)

===Fiction===
====Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota====
*''Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon'' ([[1996 in literature|1996]]) {{ISBN|0-670-87039-0}}
*''Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders'' ([[1998 in literature|1998]]) {{ISBN|0-670-87944-4}} & {{ISBN|0-14-028089-8}}
*''Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery'' ([[1999 in literature|1999]]) {{ISBN|0-670-88821-4}} & {{ISBN|0-14-029645-X}}
*''Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance'' ([[2001 in literature|2001]])
*''The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes'' ([[2002 in literature|2002]])  {{ISBN|0-14-200340-9}}
*"The Mystery of the Jeweled Cross" (short story, 2002) {{ISBN|1-879832-40-2}} & {{ISBN|1-879832-38-0}}
*"The Brewer's Son" (short story, 2006)
*''The Magic Bullet: A Locked Room Mystery Featuring Shadwell Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes'' (2011) {{ISBN|0-8166-7480-9}}
*''Strongwood: A Crime Dossier'' (2014) {{ISBN|0-8166-9093-6}}
*''Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma'' (2017)
====Other works====
*''Pineland Serenade'' (2020)

==External links==
* [http://www.larrymillett.com/ Author's website]
*Larry Millett talks about '''''Twin Cities Then and Now''''' with David Wiggins; also discusses his first mystery book with Bruce Southworth, '''Northern Lights Minnesota Author Interview TV Series''' #378 (1997):  [https://reflections.mndigital.org/catalog/p16022coll38:74#/kaltura_video<nowiki>] </nowiki>
*Larry Millett talks about '''''Lost Twin Cities''''' with Steve Benson, '''Northern Lights Minnesota Author Interview TV Series''' #329 (1995):  [https://reflections.mndigital.org/catalog/p16022coll38:58#/kaltura_video<nowiki>] </nowiki>
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