Editing Greg Iles

{{Short description|American novelist (born 1960)}}
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'''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 life==
Iles was born in 1960 in [[Stuttgart]], [[West Germany]], where his physician father ran the [[United States Embassy|US Embassy]] Medical Clinic. He was raised in [[Natchez, Mississippi]], the setting of many of his novels.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://savannahnow.com/do/2015-02-12/author-greg-iles-discuss-natchez-burning-and-other-works-book-festival |title=Author Greg Iles to discuss 'Natchez Burning' and et gregolrsle o pother works at book festival |first1=Linda |last1=Sickler |date=February 12, 2015 |newspaper=[[Savannah Morning News]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</ref> After attending [[Trinity Episcopal Day School]], he graduated from the [[University of Mississippi]] in 1983.

==Career==
Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band [[Frankly Scarlet]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-104729731/greg-iles-takes-on-god-and-if-the-almighty-wasn-t |title=Greg Iles Takes on God ... and If the Almighty Wasn't Enough to Worry about, Now He's Got to Watch out for Dave Barry, Too. |first1=Kelli |last1=Daley |date=August 2003 |publisher= |access-date= |archive-date=2020-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909103141/https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-104729731/greg-iles-takes-on-god-and-if-the-almighty-wasn-t |url-status=dead }}</ref>  He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, ''Spandau Phoenix'', a thriller about [[National Socialist German Workers Party|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 (2002 film)|Trapped]]''. Iles then rewrote the script during the shoot, at the request of the producers and actors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.strandmag.com/interview-with-greg-iles/ |title=Interview with Greg Iles |date=March 6, 2014 |publisher=[[The Strand Magazine]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</ref>

In 2011, Iles was seriously injured in a traffic accident on [[U.S. Route 61]] near Natchez.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030802148.html |title=Author Greg Iles injured in traffic accident |date=March 8, 2011 |publisher=[[The Washington Post]]/[[Associated Press]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</ref> He sustained life-threatening injuries, including a ruptured aorta.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/04/26/author-greg-iles-rebounds-near-fatal-wreck/8235149/ |title=Author Greg Iles rebounds from near-fatal wreck |first1=Billy |last1=Watkins |date=April 27, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Clarion-Ledger]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</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>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/with-natchez-burning-greg-iles-is-back-better-than-ever/2014/05/01/6de64da4-c023-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html |title=With 'Natchez Burning,' Greg Iles is back better than ever |date=May 1, 2014 |first1=Bill |last1=Sheehan |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/life/2014/05/05/tragedy-changed-greg-iles-book-natchez-burning/8712971/ |title=Tragedy changed Greg Iles book 'Natchez Burning' |first1=Paul |last1=Hyde |date=May 5, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Greenville News]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</ref>

Iles is a member of the literary musical group ''[[Rock Bottom Remainders|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 (writer)|James McBride]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tucson.com/entertainment/blogs/caliente-tuned-in/rock-bottom-remainders-not-the-best-band-but-the-most/article_3b9c18d8-3179-5724-9ee8-82f65a62beed.html |title=Rock Bottom Remainders: Not the best band, but the most literary |first1=Cathalena E. |last1=Burch |date=March 11, 2015 |newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]] |access-date=February 1, 2016 }}</ref> In July 2013,  he co-authored ''[[Hard Listening]]'' (2013) with the group.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.rockbottomremainders.com/pages/hard-listening.html|title=Hard Listening}}</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.

== Works ==
=== Fiction ===
* ''Spandau Phoenix'' (1993) {{ISBN|0-525-93604-1}}
* ''Black Cross'' (1995) {{ISBN|0-525-93829-X}}
* ''Mortal Fear'' (1997) {{ISBN|0-525-93792-7}}
* ''[[The Quiet Game]]'' (1999) {{ISBN|0-525-93793-5}}
* ''[[24 Hours (novel)|24 Hours]]'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-399-14624-5}}
* ''Dead Sleep'' (2001) {{ISBN|0-399-14735-7}}
* ''[[Sleep No More (novel)|Sleep No More]]'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-399-14881-7}}
* ''[[The Footprints of God]]'' (2003) (also titled ''Dark Matter'')  {{ISBN|0-340-82274-0}}
* ''Blood Memory'' (2005) {{ISBN|0-7432-3470-7}}
* ''Turning Angel'' (2005) {{ISBN|0-7432-3471-5}}
* ''True Evil'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-7432-9249-9}}
* ''Third Degree'' (2007) {{ISBN|978-1-4165-2454-0}}
* ''The Devil's Punchbowl'' (2009) {{ISBN|978-0-7432-9251-1}}
* ''The Death Factory'' (2014) novella {{ISBN|978-0-0623-3669-9}}
* ''Natchez Burning'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-0623-1108-5}}
* ''The Bone Tree '' (2015) {{ISBN|978-0-0623-1112-2}}
* ''Mississippi Blood'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-0-0623-1116-0}}
* ''Cemetery Road'' (2019) {{ISBN|978-0-0628-2468-4}}
* ''Southern Man'' (2024) {{ISBN|978-0-0628-2469-1}}

=== Nonfiction ===
* ''Hard Listening'' (2013), with Rock Bottom Remainders

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|1023692}}
*[http://www.gregiles.com/ The Official Website of Greg Iles]

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