Английская Википедия:Greg Iles
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published seventeen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres.
Early life
Iles was born in 1960 in Stuttgart, West Germany, where his physician father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic. He was raised in Natchez, Mississippi, the setting of many of his novels.[1] After attending Trinity Episcopal Day School, he graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.
Career
Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet.[2] He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Spandau Phoenix was published in 1993.
In 2002, Iles wrote the screenplay 24 Hours from his novel of the same name. Rewritten by director Don Roos, it was renamed Trapped. Iles then rewrote the script during the shoot, at the request of the producers and actors.[3]
In 2011, Iles was seriously injured in a traffic accident on U.S. Route 61 near Natchez.[4] He sustained life-threatening injuries, including a ruptured aorta.[5] He was put into an induced coma for eight days, and lost his right leg below the knee. During his three-year recovery, he wrote three volumes of a trilogy set in Natchez, Mississippi, and featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage.[6][7]
Iles is a member of the literary musical group The Rock Bottom Remainders, which includes or has included authors Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, and James McBride.[8] In July 2013, he co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the group.[9] The ebook combines essays, fiction, musings, email exchanges and conversations, photographs, audio and video clips, and interactive quizzes to give readers a view into the private lives of the authors/musicians.
Works
Fiction
- Spandau Phoenix (1993) Шаблон:ISBN
- Black Cross (1995) Шаблон:ISBN
- Mortal Fear (1997) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Quiet Game (1999) Шаблон:ISBN
- 24 Hours (2000) Шаблон:ISBN
- Dead Sleep (2001) Шаблон:ISBN
- Sleep No More (2002) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Footprints of God (2003) (also titled Dark Matter) Шаблон:ISBN
- Blood Memory (2005) Шаблон:ISBN
- Turning Angel (2005) Шаблон:ISBN
- True Evil (2006) Шаблон:ISBN
- Third Degree (2007)
- The Devil's Punchbowl (2009) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Death Factory (2014) novella
- Natchez Burning (2014)
- The Bone Tree (2015)
- Mississippi Blood (2017)
- Cemetery Road (2019)
- Southern Man (2024)
Nonfiction
- Hard Listening (2013), with Rock Bottom Remainders
References
External links
- Английская Википедия
- 1960 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
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- American male novelists
- American thriller writers
- Novelists from Mississippi
- University of Mississippi alumni
- People from Natchez, Mississippi
- Writers from Stuttgart
- Rock Bottom Remainders members
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Barry Award winners
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