Greg Iles

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Greg Iles
Greg Iles in 2013
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Stuttgart, West Germany
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter

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

US Embassy Medical Clinic. He was raised in Natchez, Mississippi, the setting of many of his novels.[1] 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

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. Iles then rewrote the script during the shoot, at the request of the producers and actors.[3]

In 2011, Iles was seriously injured in a traffic accident on U.S. Route 61 near Natchez.[4] He sustained life-threatening injuries, including a ruptured aorta.[5] 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.[6][7]

Iles is a member of the literary musical group

Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, and James McBride.[8] In July 2013, he co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the group.[9]
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

Nonfiction

  • Hard Listening (2013), with Rock Bottom Remainders

References

  1. ^ Sickler, Linda (February 12, 2015). "Author Greg Iles to discuss 'Natchez Burning' and et gregolrsle o pother works at book festival". Savannah Morning News. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Daley, Kelli (August 2003). "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". Archived from the original on 2020-09-09.
  3. ^ "Interview with Greg Iles". The Strand Magazine. March 6, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  4. ^ "Author Greg Iles injured in traffic accident". The Washington Post/Associated Press. March 8, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Watkins, Billy (April 27, 2014). "Author Greg Iles rebounds from near-fatal wreck". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  6. ^ Sheehan, Bill (May 1, 2014). "With 'Natchez Burning,' Greg Iles is back better than ever". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  7. ^ Hyde, Paul (May 5, 2014). "Tragedy changed Greg Iles book 'Natchez Burning'". The Greenville News. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  8. ^ Burch, Cathalena E. (March 11, 2015). "Rock Bottom Remainders: Not the best band, but the most literary". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  9. ^ "Hard Listening".

External links

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