Greg Iles

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person 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.

Early lifeEdit

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After attending Trinity Episcopal Day School, he graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.

CareerEdit

Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2011, Iles was seriously injured in a traffic accident on U.S. Route 61 near Natchez.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He sustained life-threatening injuries, including a ruptured aorta.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In July 2013, he co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the group.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.

WorksEdit

FictionEdit

Spandau Phoenix (1993) Template:ISBN
Black Cross (1995) Template:ISBN
Mortal Fear (1997) Template:ISBN
The Quiet Game (1999) Template:ISBN
24 Hours (2000) Template:ISBN
Dead Sleep (2001) Template:ISBN
Sleep No More (2002) Template:ISBN
The Footprints of God (2003) (also titled Dark Matter) Template:ISBN
Blood Memory (2005) Template:ISBN
Turning Angel (2005) Template:ISBN
True Evil (2006) Template:ISBN
Third Degree (2007) Template:ISBN
The Devil's Punchbowl (2009) Template:ISBN
The Death Factory (2014) novella Template:ISBN
Natchez Burning (2014) Template:ISBN
The Bone Tree (2015) Template:ISBN
Mississippi Blood (2017) Template:ISBN
Cemetery Road (2019) Template:ISBN
Southern Man (2024) Template:ISBN

NonfictionEdit

Hard Listening (2013), with Rock Bottom Remainders

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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The Official Website of Greg Iles

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