John Katzenbach | |
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Born | Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | June 23, 1950
Occupation | Writer and screenwriter |
Period | 1987–present |
Genre | Suspense |
Spouse | Madeleine Blais |
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John Katzenbach (born June 23, 1950) is an American author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News and as a featured writer for the Herald's Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais, and they live in western Massachusetts. [1]
He left the newspaper industry to write psychological thrillers. His In the Heat of the Summer (1982) novel [2] was nominated for an Edgar Award and then became the movie The Mean Season (1985), starring Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway.
Two more of his books were made into films in the United States: Just Cause (1995) with Sean Connery and Hart's War (2002) with Bruce Willis. A fourth book, The Wrong Man, was made in 2011 as the French TV film Faux Coupable. [3]
Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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1983 | In the Heat of the Summer | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel | Finalist | [5] |
1987 | The Traveller | CWA New Blood Dagger | Finalist | |
1996 | The Shadow Man | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Finalist | |
2000 | Hart’s War | Barry Award for Best Novel | Finalist | |
2004 | The Madman's Tale | Hammett Prize | Finalist | |
2005 | The Madman's Tale | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
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