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Delia Owens has seen mainstream success as the author of "Where the Crawdads Sing," the hit book that's now a movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones. However, all the new attention on the film has brought a complex and shocking story from Delia's past back into the spotlight. Years ago, Delia left Zambia, Africa, after being tied to a murder investigation. She is still currently wanted for questioning by the Zambian government.
Before she was a bestselling author, Delia and her husband, Mark Owens, were zoologists and conservationists based in Africa, originally in Botswana before moving to Zambia. While there, the couple became involved in an effort to stop elephant poachers. Mark, according to a piece published in The Atlantic in July, had "gradually come to command a corps of game scouts in North Luangwa, outside of Zambian-government oversight, by buying their loyalty through the provision of weapons, boots,...
Delia Owens has seen mainstream success as the author of "Where the Crawdads Sing," the hit book that's now a movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones. However, all the new attention on the film has brought a complex and shocking story from Delia's past back into the spotlight. Years ago, Delia left Zambia, Africa, after being tied to a murder investigation. She is still currently wanted for questioning by the Zambian government.
Before she was a bestselling author, Delia and her husband, Mark Owens, were zoologists and conservationists based in Africa, originally in Botswana before moving to Zambia. While there, the couple became involved in an effort to stop elephant poachers. Mark, according to a piece published in The Atlantic in July, had "gradually come to command a corps of game scouts in North Luangwa, outside of Zambian-government oversight, by buying their loyalty through the provision of weapons, boots,...
- 7/15/2022
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for both the film and the novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.”]
With a simple plot attempting to harken back to the central court case of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Delia Owens’ 2018 novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” became a bestseller and caught the attention of mega-producer Reese Witherspoon, who scooped up the adaptation rights under her Hello Sunshine production banner.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” centers on Kya Clark, derisively referred to by her community as “Marsh Girl,” who was left to fend for herself along the North Carolina coast as a young girl. Upon becoming a teenager and being romantically involved with two men from town, Kya finds herself in the center of a murder trial in 1969 after one of her beaus is found dead following an attempted assault.
The Sony film, opening on July 15, stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as the (seemingly) wrongfully-accused Kya; the film is helmed by “First Match” director Olivia Newman with a script by “Beasts...
With a simple plot attempting to harken back to the central court case of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Delia Owens’ 2018 novel “Where the Crawdads Sing” became a bestseller and caught the attention of mega-producer Reese Witherspoon, who scooped up the adaptation rights under her Hello Sunshine production banner.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” centers on Kya Clark, derisively referred to by her community as “Marsh Girl,” who was left to fend for herself along the North Carolina coast as a young girl. Upon becoming a teenager and being romantically involved with two men from town, Kya finds herself in the center of a murder trial in 1969 after one of her beaus is found dead following an attempted assault.
The Sony film, opening on July 15, stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as the (seemingly) wrongfully-accused Kya; the film is helmed by “First Match” director Olivia Newman with a script by “Beasts...
- 7/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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