Suspense selling author, Michael Connelly - Author Biography

Michael Connelly, July 21, 1956, born and raised in Philadelphia by the time he was 11 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Hales He is a great family with him his eldest son. Michael's father was a bricklayer and his mother a homemaker. Michael says that his parents encouraged all children to succeed.

Michael's mother loved to read, especially mysteries. He read some of his books as a child before finding her. Michael says he likes to more hard-nosedSecrets. Michael attended the University of Florida, where she studied journalism with a minor in creative writing. E 'was while there that he came on the works of Raymond Chandler.

Michael married Linda McCaleb in April 1984. They have a daughter, Callie. Michael says he feels like a child who has become a better writer, because it is a better person. Michael has been a journalist for about 13 years, lost in the courts and the police. He said he consideredYour search for the time he began writing novels.

Michael moved to Los Angeles, CA 1987, was named as one of the stories by Michael Connelly for the Pulitzer Prize and attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Times. Michael said this was a secret hope of him, "... because the most influential writer of detective novels, at least for me, everything written about Los Angeles and Southern California. The place has a certain interest for readers."

In 1995 Michael completed his concert reportingand concentrated full time on his career as a fiction. He says he prefers other thriller genres. He, for example, does not see himself writing fiction or general fiction. He writes what he wants to read. You write what comes from within.

In 2001, Michael and his family moved to Los Angeles to Florida to be closer to their families. Although it is now working on the "memory creative" Michael says it is still back to visit. In the meantime, he says, he triesto read whatever is in Los Angeles.

A few years ago told a journalism conference Michael. "You scratch a reporter and an aspiring novelist ... to find a natural extension of his work, because novels take a lot of reporting the truth and you have the world experience to write about E '."

Books by Michael Connelly:

Series:

Harry Bosch
The Black Echo (1992)
The Black Ice (1993)
The Concrete Blonde (1994)
The Last Coyote (1995)
Trunk Music((1996)
Angel Flight (1998)
A Darkness More Than Night (2000)
City of Bones (2002)
Lost Light (2003)
The Poet (2004)
Girl (2005)
Echo Park (2006)
The Overlook (2007)
9 Dragons (2009)

Jack McEvoy:
The Poet (1995)
The Scarecrow (2009)

Mickey Haller:
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)
The verdict Brass (2008)

Stand Alone Novels:
Blood Work (1998)
Void Moon (1999)
Chasing the Dime (2002)

Non Fiction:
Crime Beat Stories(2006) of Cops and Killers

Omnibus:
Harry Bosch Novels: Black Echo / Black Ice / Concrete Blonde (2000)
The Harry Bosch Novels Volume 2: The Last Coyote / Trunk Music / Angels Flight (2003)
Two great novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice (2004)
The Harry Bosch Novels Volume 3: Darker than night / City of Bones / Lost Night (2008)

Edited anthologies:
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) (with Otto Penzler)
Murder in Las Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling andDepression (2005)
Blues Religion: New Stories Cops, criminals, and Chase (2008)
In the Shadow of the Master (2009)