Author Bio
• Birth—May 6, 1950
• Where—Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Missouri; J.D., Fordham
University
• Awards—Nero Wolf Award; Steel Dager and Short Story
Dagger from Brittish Crime Writers' Assn.; Ellery Queen
Reader's Award for Best Short Story (3 times); Thumping
Good Read Award (British); Book of the Year by Mystery
Writers' Assn. of Japan; Grand Prix Award by Japanese
Adventure Fiction Assn.
• Currently—N/A
Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He originally started working as a journalist, but trained as a lawyer and later practised law.
Many of Deaver's books tend to promote lateral thinking, particularly his short story collection Twisted. One of his books, The Blue Nowhere, features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit.
His most popular series features his regular character Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and Amelia Sachs. According to a 2006 interview on The Early Show, Deaver said he would rotate between his new series and Lincoln Rhyme each year. Virtually all of his works feature a trick ending, or sometimes multiple trick endings.
Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.
Two of Deaver's novels have been produced into films: The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie (in 1999), and A Maiden's Grave as the HBO film Dead Silence with James Garner and Marlee Matlin (in 1997).
Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25th to November 13, 2007.
Deaver was chosen as author of the newest James Bond novel (May, 2011), known as Project X, which is set in the present era and published in May of 2011. He is the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson. (From Wikipedia.)