Lee Child

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James D. "Jim" Grant (born October 29, 1954), known primarily as the pen name Lee Child , is an English writer who wrote the thriller novel, and best known for the series his novel Jack Reacher . The books follow the adventures of a former US military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders to the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor won Anthony Award, and Barry Award for Best First Novel.

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Jim Grant was born in Coventry, England. His father was a civil servant. He was the second son of four sons; his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's family was transferred to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old that the boys could receive better education. Grant attended the Cherry Orchard Primary School at Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham.

In 1974, at the age of 20, Grant studied law at the University of Sheffield, although he did not intend to enter the legal profession and, during his college years, worked backstage at the theater. After graduation, he worked on commercial television. He received his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Sheffield in 1977 and returned to the University to receive the Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) in 2009.

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Careers

Television production career

Grant joined Granada Television, part of the UK ITV Network, in Manchester as the presentation director. There he was involved with performances including Brideshead Revisited, Crown Jewel, Prime Suspect and Cracker . Grant was involved in the transmission of over 40,000 hours of programming for Granada, writing thousands of ads and news. He worked in Granada from 1977 to 1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade union official.

Writing career

After being made redundant from his work due to corporate restructuring, Grant decided to start writing novels, stating that they were "the purest form of entertainment." In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor , was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.

Grant started every new installment of his book series on the anniversary he started writing the first book after losing his job.

The pen name "Lee" comes from a family joke about a misstatement regarding Renault's Le Car, as 'Lee Car'. Calling something 'Lee' to be a family joke, his daughter, Ruth, is 'lee child'.

Luckily for Grant, 'Child' places his books alphabetically in a bookstore and library shelf between crime fiction films Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie.

Grant had said that he chose Reacher's name for the central character in his novels because he was tall and when they were shopping for his wife's shopping, Jane commented: "'Hey, if this writing does not go well, you can always be a preacher at a supermarket. '...' I think, Reacher - good name. ' "Some of the books in the Reacher series are written with the first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has marked the books as a story of revenge - "Someone did a terrible thing, and Reacher took revenge" - driven by his anger at downsizing in Granada. Despite his English, he deliberately chose to write an American-style thriller.

In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part thriller series The Chopin Manuscript, which was narrated by Alfred Molina. It is broadcast weekly at Audible.com between September 25, 2007 and November 13, 2007.

On June 30, 2008, it was announced that Grant would take Visiting Teachers at Sheffield University from November 2008. In 2009, Grant funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for university students.

Grant was elected president of the American Mystery Writer in 2009.

Movie adaptation

In 2012, his ninth novel, One Shot , was adapted into Jack Reacher, an American thriller starring Tom Cruise. The film is directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie. Grant made a cameo appearance as a police sergeant in the film.

In 2016, his eighteenth novel, Never Go Back, was adapted into Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, with Tom Cruise repeating his role. The film was directed by Edward Zwick, and the screenplay was written by Richard Wenk, Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz. In the movie, the last scene is set in New Orleans, which is not a location in the book. The author agrees to this addition to help the New Orleans economy. In the film, Grant made a cameo appearance as a TSA agent. In the bonus footage on the Blu-ray disc, Child explains that in both films, his cameo appearance involves judging the character of Jack Reacher, and speculates that he will repeat this type of performance in the future of Jack Reacher's movie.

Writing style

Prosa Grant has been described as "hardboiled" and "commercial" in style, with short sentences, often without verbs, more exclamation points than sentences. Interviews in 2012 show that many aspects of the Jack Reacher novel are purposely aimed at keeping the book profits, not for literary reasons. For example, making Jack Reacher has one parent that the French are advised as partly because the presence of only members of the Reacher American family will limit the attractiveness of the series in France. The same interview stated that Grant "did not apologize about the commercial nature" of his fiction.

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Philanthropy

In January 2012, Grant donated Ã, Â £ 10,000 (about US $ 16,000 at the time) to a new vehicle for the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team in Wales. His brother is a senior member of the team. The former team's control vehicle was scrapped after a collision in 2011.

Grant is the annual sponsor and original member of Thrillerfest.

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Personal life

Grant married his wife Jane in 1975, They lived in his home country, New York. They have a daughter.

Grant is a fan of Aston Villa Football Club and has been known to include the names of Aston Villa players in his book.

In 2013, the Daily Mail quoted him as saying he was drunk ("high") by marijuana and that he had been smoking drugs five nights a week for 44 years. However, in a telephone interview in November 2013, he clarified his comments to the Irish Examiner, saying he never wrote when he was tall. "Yes, that's right," Son said to The Post-Standard. "I mean, people say to me, 'There's a story in the paper,' and I said, 'No, that is The Daily Mail .' In the UK, it's not a newspaper, you know, it's a scandal sheet where they make up.It's not very reliable.And of course I do not deny smoking occasionally together, but I'm not working when I'm stoning because you do not get much done that way. "

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Novels and awards

Note: For consistency, ISBN shows Bantam (English) hardcover, first printed only.

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Honors

James Grant A.K.A. Lee Child has received honorary degrees from several universities. These include:

More awards

• 2005 - Bob Kellogg Good Citizen Award for Extraordinary Contributions in the Internet Writing Community
• 2013 - Cartier Diamond Dagger, lifetime achievement by the Criminal Writers Association

Other books

• 2017 - No Middle Name . Includes original novels ("Too Much Time"), and the following short stories: "Far Down", "Everyone Talks", "Guy Walks into Bar", "Hot Heat", "James Penney New Identity" long ")," Maybe They Have Tradition "," No Room at the Motel "," Not Bor "," Second Child "," Little War ", and" Picture of Lonely Restaurant ".

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Short story

• "James Penney New Identity" from Fresh Blood 3 (edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski) and from Thriller (USA)
• "The Snake Eater by the Numbers" from Like a Charm (edited by Karin Slaughter)
• "Ten Keys" from The Cocain Chronicles (edited by Jervey Tervalon and Gary Phillips)
• "The Greatest Trick of All" from Greatest Hits (edited by Robert J Randisi)
• "Guy Walks to Bar..." (prequel to Gone Tomorrow , in The New York Times
• "Me & amp; Mr. Rafferty" from Dark Edge (edited by Jonathan Santlofer and S. J. Rozan)
• "The Bodyguard" from First Thrills (edited by Lee Child)
• "Second Son" (electronic short story about Jack Reacher, August 15, 2011)
• "Addicted to Sweetness" from The Rich and the Dead (edited by Nelson DeMille)
• "Everyone Talking" (Reacher short story, in Esquire (June/July 2012, US edition)
• "Deep Down" (electronic short story about Jack Reacher, June 16, 2012)
• "The Hollywood I Remember" (Short story about Jack Reacher, in a collection of short stories Vengeance , edited by Lee Child, 2012)
• "High Heat" (electronic short story about a teenager Jack Reacher, August 6, 2013)
• "Good and Worth Consideration" from Face Off (with Joseph Finder, edited by David Baldacci) June 2014
• "Not Bor" (electronic short story about Jack Reacher, July 29, 2014)
• "Little War" (electronic short story about Jack Reacher, August 18, 2015)
• "Fake the Killer" from Matchup (short story about Jack Reacher and Temperance Brennan, June 6, 2017) (with Kathy Reichs)

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References

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External links

• Lee Child - Wikipedia book
• Official website, featuring blogs, forums, bibliography, and Lee Child quotes
• Lee Child's Books from US Publisher Bantam Dell
• Lee Child in the Internet Book List
• | title = Interview with Lee Child on readingandwritingpodcast.com
• "Interview: Lee Child". The Telegraph . April 1, 2007.
• Daily Telegraph, July 14, 2007
• Time, August 25, 2012

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