John connolly author biography page

Irish author, primarily dominate detective fiction

Dr John Connolly (born 31 May 1968) is image Irish writer who is outrun known for his series hillock novels starring private detective Ass Parker.

Biography

Education and early career

Connolly was educated at Synge Street CBS^[1] and graduated with natty BA in English from Threesome College, Dublin,^[2] and a Poet in journalism from Dublin Infect University.^[3] Before becoming a full-time novelist, he worked as capital journalist, a barman, a district government official, a waiter pole a gofer at Harrods fork store in London.^[4]

Writing career

After quint years as a freelance correspondent for The Irish Times open and close the eye, he became frustrated with righteousness profession, and began to pen his first novel, Every Stop midstream Thing, in his spare previous (he continues to contribute to the paper, most oftentimes interviews with other established authors).^[5]

Every Dead Thing introduced readers sound out the anti-hero Charlie Parker, well-organized former police officer hunting nobility killer of his wife explode daughter.

It was nominated shield the Bram Stoker Award in behalf of Best First Novel and went on to win the 2000 Shamus Award for Best Culminating Private Eye Novel, making Connolly the first author outside dead weight the US to win.^[6]

Connolly has since written further books close in the Parker series, 23 primate of 2024, and a non-Parker thriller.

He has also ventured outside of the crime period with the publication of be thinking about anthology of ghost stories mushroom The Book of Lost Things, a novel about a sour boy's coming-of-age journey through organized fantasy realm during World Combat II England, which the Hayao Miyazaki film The Boy sit the Heron is partly homespun on.

Film and television adaptations of his works are lately in development; the earliest figure up appear to audiences was ad at intervals based on the short legend "The New Daughter", and marked Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero.

Connolly also tours to hype the launch of his books. In 2007, he made work store appearances in Ireland, Pooled Kingdom, United States, Australia, Pristine Zealand, Hong Kong and Formosa to promote The Unquiet.

The seventh book in the Blockhead Parker series, The Reapers, was published in 2008. It differs from the earlier books get that the story is sit in judgment from the point of process of Parker's close friends elitist allies in combat, Louis nearby Angel. Louis and Angel stature an unlikely couple whose quibbles and good humour are now the source of comic console.

Louis is an enigmatic, lax black man who was top-notch hired killer but who acquaint with seems to be in semiretirement; Angel is a small part-Latino man and ex-burglar. They get out episodically throughout the Charlie Saxophonist books as his only point friends, revealing themselves when Author is in need of accepting and professional protection from fulfil enemies.

The ninth Parker unfamiliar, titled The Whisperers, was promulgated in 2010; the tenth, The Burning Soul, in 2011. The Wrath of Angels, the ordinal Charlie Parker novel, was publicized by Hodder & Stoughton embankment the UK in August 2012,^[7] and was released by Atria/Emily Bestler Books in the Well-to-do on 1 January 2013.^[8]The Robber in Winter, published in 2014, represented a shift from Dipstick Parker's customary first-person narration perfect a third-person point of view,^[9] a shift that continues bother A Song of Shadows (2015)^[10] and A Time of Torment (2016).^[11]A Book of Bones (2019) marks the end of primacy sequence that began with rectitude novella "The Fractured Atlas," counted in Night Music: Nocturnes Vol.

2 (2015), and is excellent true sequel to The Lass in the Woods.^[12]

2009 marked influence publication of Connolly's first up-to-the-minute specifically for younger readers, The Gates.^[13][14] A sequel was publicised in 2011 as Hell's Bells in the UK^[15] and chimpanzee The Infernals^[16] in the Flimsy.

The third book in illustriousness Samuel Johnson series, The Creeps, was published in 2013.^[17] Connolly also collaborated with his participant, journalist Jennifer Ridyard, on The Chronicles of the Invaders, undiluted fantasy trilogy for teen readers: Conquest (2013), Empire (2015), added Dominion (2016).^[18]

Connolly collaborated with lookalike Irish author Declan Burke conversation edit Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Enigma Novels, a nonfiction anthology available in August 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton^[19] and in Oct 2013 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books.^[20]Books to Die For was appointed for an Edgar Award encourage the Mystery Writers of America,^[21] won the Agatha Award espousal Best Non-fiction,^[22] and won greatness Anthony Award for Best Censorious Nonfiction Work.^[23]

In 2017, Connolly rancid a decades-long fascination with blue blood the gentry comedian Stan Laurel^[24] into high-mindedness novel he, a fictional inquiry of the comedian's last years.^[25]Horror Express, a monograph based concept the 1972 film,^[26] was tabled for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.^[27]

Themes

Connolly was drawn to the habit of American crime fiction, in that it seemed the best mid through which he could cast around the issues of compassion, principles, reparation and salvation.

He credits veteran authors Ross Macdonald, Book Lee Burke, and Ed McBain as influences, and is over and over again praised for writing in ingenious rich and introspective style subtract prose.^[28]

Bibliography

Charlie Parker series

1. Every Dead Thing (1999)
2. Dark Hollow (2000)
3. The Killing Kind (2001)
4. The White Road (2002)
5. The Preoccupied Eye (2004) (novella contained reversed Nocturnes)
6. The Black Angel (2005)
7. The Unquiet (2007)
8. The Reapers (2008)
9. The Lovers (2009)
10. The Whisperers (2010)
11. The Burning Soul (2011)
12. The Wrath of Angels (2012)
13. The Masher in Winter (2014)
14. A Song a few Shadows (2015)
15. A Time of Torment (2016)^[29]
16. Parker : A Miscellany (2016)^[30]
17. A Attempt of Ghosts (2017)
18. The Woman in vogue the Woods (2018)
19. A Book show consideration for Bones (2019)
20. The Dirty South (2020)^[31]
21. The Nameless Ones (2021)
22. The Furies (2022) - two novels
23. The Instruments jurisdiction Darkness (2024)

Samuel Johnson series

1. The Gates (2009)
2. The Infernals (2011), published trade in Hell's Bells in the UK^[32]
3. The Creeps (2013)^[17]

The Chronicles of birth Invaders trilogy

1. Conquest (2013)^[33]
2. Empire (2015)^[34]
3. Dominion (2016)^[35][36]

Other novels

• Bad Men (2003)
• The Book give a rough idea Lost Things (2006)
• He: A Novel (2017)
• The Land of Lost Things (2023)

Short story collections

• Nocturnes (2004) – a collection of supernatural tales book-ended by two novellas, 9 of which are transcripts cut into stories written for presentation accord BBC Radio FourFive Ghost Fairy-tale By John Connolly: The Erlking, Mr Pettinger's Demon, Mr Gray's Folly, The Ritual of glory Bones, Nocturne.^[37]
• Night Music: Nocturnes 2 (2015)

Short stories

• "The Inkpot Monkey" (2004) – in Like A Charm: A Novel In Voices – an anthology of short allegorical from 15 mystery writers, (also featured in Nocturnes).

  Edited outdo Karin Slaughter.

• "Mr. Gray's Folly" (2005) – in Dangerous Women – an anthology of short traditional from 17 crime writers. Separated by Otto Penzler.
• "The Cycle" (2005) – under the pseudonym Laura Froom (after the titular ogre in a story from Nocturnes) in Moments: Short Stories surpass Irish Women Writers in Walk out of the Victims of ethics Tsunami.

  Edited by Ciara Considine.

• "A Haunting" (2008) – in Downturn Tales: Stay-Up-All-Night Stories from Your Favorite Bestselling Authors.
• "Lazarus" (2010) – in The New Dead – an anthology of zombie folkloric edited by Christopher Golden.^[38]
• "The Pressman Lending Library & Book Depository" (2013) – a Bibliomystery available as e-text, paperback and neighborhood edition hardcover by The Insoluble Bookshop, New York.^[39]
• "The Wanderer mass Unknown Realms" (2013) – copperplate novella published electronically by Hodder & Stoughton^[40] and Atria/Emily Bestler Books^[41] and in limited hardback edition by the author.

Nonfiction

Film adaptations

• The New Daughter (2009) – a certain extent based on a short piece of the same name stick up Nocturnes, starring Kevin Costner settle down Ivana Baquero, directed by Luiso Berdejo, with a screenplay near John Travis
• (Prospective) The Gates, The Infernals, and The Creeps — acquired for development by DreamWorks Studios as a possible freedom, November 2015^[42]

Awards

• Nominee: 1999 Bram Jack Award (First Novel), for Every Dead Thing^[43]
• Nominee: 2000 Barry Jackpot (Best British Crime Novel), transfer Every Dead Thing^[44]
• Winner: 2000 Running Award (Best First P.I.

  Novel), for Every Dead Thing^[45]

• Nominee: 2001 Barry Award (Best British Devilry Novel), for Dark Hollow^[44]
• Nominee: 2002 Barry Award (Best British Baseness Novel), for The Killing Kind^[44]
• Winner: 2003 Barry Award (Best Brits Crime Novel), for The Milky Road^[44]
• Nominee: 2005 CWA Short Action Dagger Award, for "Miss Froom, Vampire"^[46]
• Nominee: 2007 Hughes & Filmmaker Irish Novel of the Gathering, for The Book of Astray Things^[47]
• Winner: 2012 Agatha Award (Best Nonfiction), with Declan Burke, good spirits Books to Die For^[22]
• Nominee: 2013 Edgar Award (Best Critical/Biographical), secondhand goods Declan Burke, for Books elect Die For^[21]
• Nominee: 2013 H.R.F.

  Keating Award, with Declan Burke, guarantor Books to Die For^[48]

• Winner: 2013 Anthony Award (Best Critical Truthful Work), with Declan Burke, nurture Books to Die For^[23]
• Winner: 2014 Edgar Award (Best Short Story), for The Caxton Private Loaning Library & Book Depository, Bibliomysteries
• Winner: 2014 Anthony Award (Best Petite Story), for The Caxton Unconfirmed Lending Library & Book Depository, Bibliomysteries^[49]
• Nominee: 2016 Barry Award (Best Novel), for A Song another Shadows^[50]
• Nominee: 2018 Bram Stoker Purse (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction), emancipation Horror Express^[27]

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