The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives

JEFFERY DEAVER

Born outside Chicago in 1950, Jeffery Deaver received a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and became a journalist, then got a law degree from Fordham University and practiced for several years. A poet, he also wrote songs and performed them around the country.

The author of twenty-five novels and two short-story collections, Deaver has been translated into twenty-five languages and is a perennial bestseller in America and elsewhere. Among his many honors and nominations are six Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations, three Ellery Queen Readers Awards for best short story of the year, the 2001 W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award for The Empty Chair, and the 2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award from the Crime Writers’ Association for Garden of Beasts.

In addition to his popular and critically acclaimed series about the brilliant quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme, he has written more than a dozen nonseries suspense novels.

His first Lincoln Rhyme novel, The Bone Collector, was filmed by Universal in 1999 and starred Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. A nonseries novel, A Maiden’s Grave, was an HBO movie retitled Dead Silence that starred James Garner and Marlee Matlin.

Deaver lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.