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Greg Iles is an American bestselling novelist.

He is the creator of the novels: Spandau Phoenix Black Cross Human Fear The Quiet Game The Footprints of God Twenty-four Hours Dead Sleep Sleep No More Blood Memory

He accept his personal inside Natchez, Mississippi. Life

Greg Iles was innate withinside Germany in 1960, in which his father ran a Me Embassy Medical Clinic when you took a height of the Cold War. He spent his youth inside Natchez, Mississippi, & graduated from either a University of Mississippi around 1983. Greg spent many years swimming music in the band Frankly Scarlet. the season fallowing he was married, he gigged on tour for L weeks away from 52, & completed that this modus vivendi was just non sustainable by having a personal. He quit the b& and began working xviii hours a day in his 1st novel, Spandau Phoenix, the thriller just about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Once Greg sold this manuscript, he left a music business to complete a book. Spandau Phoenix was published inside 1993 & became a number 1 of eight Future York Days best seller.

All over the course of his next couple of books, Greg broke a formula adhered to by virtually all commercial novelists & wrote within a kind of genres. Peradventure amazingly, every obtained the place on the best seller listing, & within todays world readers look send on to discovering what fresh subject Greg has explored in his latest novel.

Within 2002 he wrote a script of Twenty-four Hours within seven days when he got a influenza. Xxiv Hours was rewritten by director Don Roos & renamed Cornered, which Greg so rewrote at a asking of a producers & actors, beginning the day of the actual shoot & working near for 24 hours when you took shooting -- to mixed final result. Greg calls this the learning own household budget, & might add an essay just about this case to the places before long.

Greg's novels use been translated into to the higher degree a 12 languages & promulgated around extra than twenty countries worldwide. He is presently working in Turning Angel, his third book for Scribner, the shocking exploration of the globe of the modern preparatory school. It begins, naturally, by using the execution.

Greg however lives very much of his absolutely free! instance swimming music. He occurs as member of the legendary class action “The Rock Bottom Remainders� which includes authors Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, and James McBride. A favorite guest for this fall’s “WannaPalooza Tour� was Roger McGuinn, co-founder of The Byrds.

Greg presently sleep in Natchez, Mississippi, with his wife & his ii youngsters. His latest novel, Blood Memory, was published in February 15, 2005, & debuted at #8 on the Up to date York Days best seller listing.

Greg Iles
The author's official Web site.

Mississippi Writers Page
Information about Mississippi writer Greg Iles, including a biographical and critical article, a list of published works, and other resources.






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