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Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States.
Jim Grant was born in Coventry, England. His father was a civil servant and his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's parents moved him and his three brothers to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old, so that the boys could get a better education. Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham.
In 1974, at age 20, Grant studied law at University of Sheffield, though he had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days, worked backstage in a theatre. After graduating, he worked in commercial television.
On tour for his latest Jack Reacher novel, Make Me, author Lee Child sat down at the Sanders Theater in Cambridge, MA with writer Stephen King--a huge fan of the series, now 20 long.
The best-selling author introduced readers to Jack Reacher in 1997, who is becoming one of fiction’s most wildly-loved characters. In 2012, Tom Cruise brought the ex-military investigator to the big screen, playing the man who comes and goes without explanation. Child joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss bringing Reacher back for the 20th time in his new book “Make Me.”
NOTE: TV-MA (Language) Author Lee Child is in conversation onstage at the City Opera House with New York Times bestselling author and host Doug Stanton for a fascinating discussion on his life and work, including the eagerly anticipated new novel, A Wanted Man (published September 2012). Child has become an international sensation and regular fixture atop the New York Times bestsellers list. He is published in ninety-five countries and in forty languages, with more than thirteen million books in print in the United States. His hero, Jack Reacher, finds himself in all kinds of interesting jams, which Reacher handles with a wary eye, dry humor and good manners. Lee's spare, musical prose is unstoppable -- once you start a Reacher novel, you finish that night. Called "the best thriller w...
Lee Child will share his personal story - one that goes from his being a successful television producer to being fired as "redundant." Lee then bought $6 worth of paper and pencils and sat down and wrote Killing Floor, the first of his Jack Reacher series. A film, based on Lee's ninth novel, One Shot, starred Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall and Rosamund Pike. Make Me is Lee's latest novel, currently on the best-seller list.
Lee Child is one of the hottest mystery writers working today. He's sold more than 40 million books in 75 countries, and it all happened by chance. Armen Keteyian reports.
The creator of Jack Reacher, Lee Child talks to John Birmingham about how he writes, his new book 61 Hours and wanting to be in The Beatles.
Stefan Pape interviews legendary Jack Reacher Author Lee Child for the latest film in the Jack Reacher franchise Never Go Back. This is the second of his 20 books that has been turned into a movie with Tom Cruise in the title role. During the interview they discuss his cameo, adapting the book to a movie, if he's precious about his work being turned into a movie, if he visualizes Tom Cruise in the lead role and what we can expect from future books. The film stars Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh, it is directed by Edward Zwick and produced by Don Granger. Plot: When Army Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), who heads Reacher’s old investigative unit, is arrested for Treason, Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to uncover the truth behind a major government...
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In this interview, bestselling novelist Lee Child (Jack Reacher novels) explains why it's better to start writing later in life.
Admired by his peers and hundreds of thousands of readers, author of the wildly popular Jack Reacher series, Lee Child returned to Crime Fiction Academy (CFA) to talk with CFA Director Jonathan Santlofer about the craft of suspense writing and about his most recent book, Make Me. There’s simply no one better to impart crime fiction wisdom.
Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/EmpireSub Lee Child, the man who created the man mountain that is Jack Reacher, talks to Empire about how Tom Cruise took his character to the big screen. http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1612 Official YouTube home of the world's biggest (and best) movie magazine and website. Want to keep up to date with everything going on in the world of film? Visit our website here: http://www.empireonline.com Follow us on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/empiremagazine Fan us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/empiremagazine And subscribe on YouTube here: http://is.gd/yRxXu0 Subscribe to the mag / iPad edition here: http://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/empire
Book twenty one in the Jack Reacher series - Night School - is a prequel, taking us back to 1996 when Reacher was a major in the military police. Three years after a major terrorist attack in New York, intelligence services have reason to suspect that a plan for another attack is being formed. Reacher is drafted into an emergency task force formed of members of the army, CIA and FBI and sent to ‘training school’, effectively erasing him from the system. As further information takes Reacher and Sergeant Nealey to Hamburg Germany, we’re taken on an action-packed adventure to track down ‘the American’ and the secret that a jihadist sleeper cell would be willing to pay $100m for. In this exclusive video Lee Child tells us more about his latest Jack Reacher thriller and answers our questions...
Craig Ferguson interviews Lee Child on the Late Late Show 6/05/06