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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer |
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.
Greg Iles | |
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| Greg Iles in 2013 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer |
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.
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.
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.
David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).
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The Rhythm Club fire was a fire in a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi on the night of April 23, 1940, which killed 209 people and severely injured many others. Hundreds of people were trapped inside the building. At the time, it was the second deadliest building fire in the history of the nation. It is now ranked as the fourth deadliest assembly and club fire in U.S. history.
Penn Cage is a fictional prosecutor turned writer created by author Greg Iles in his novel The Quiet Game (1999). Cage also appears in Iles' novels Turning Angel (2005), and The Devil's Punchbowl (2009), and the novella The Death Factory (2014). He has last appeared in the trilogy of Natchez Burning (2014), The Bone Tree (2015), and Mississippi Blood (2017). He also makes minor appearances in Sleep No More (2002) and True Evil (2006).
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