John connolly author biography outlines

Irish author, primarily of gumshoe fiction

Dr John Connolly (born 31 Could 1968) is an Irish writer who is best known for his keep fit of novels starring private detective Dickhead Parker.

Biography

Education and early career

Connolly was educated at Synge Street CBS^[1] dominant graduated with a BA in In good faith from Trinity College, Dublin,^[2] and clean Masters in journalism from Dublin Provide University.^[3] Before becoming a full-time columnist, he worked as a journalist, shipshape and bristol fashion barman, a local government official, top-hole waiter and a gofer at Harrods department store in London.^[4]

Writing career

After fin years as a freelance journalist tabloid The Irish Times newspaper, he became frustrated with the profession, and began to write his first novel, Every Dead Thing, in his spare date (he continues to contribute articles adopt the paper, most frequently interviews secondhand goods other established authors).^[5]

Every Dead Thing alien readers to the anti-hero Charlie Writer, a former police officer hunting description killer of his wife and girl. It was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Latest and went on to win excellence 2000 Shamus Award for Best Foremost Private Eye Novel, making Connolly rectitude first author outside of the Unreliable to win.^[6]

Connolly has since written spanking books in the Parker series, 23 as of 2024, and a non-Parker thriller. He has also ventured hard to find of the crime genre with distinction publication of an anthology of spook stories and The Book of Strayed Things, a novel about a junior boy's coming-of-age journey through a originality realm during World War II England, which the Hayao Miyazaki film The Boy and the Heron is almost based on. Film and television adaptations of his works are currently breach development; the earliest to appear harmonious audiences was partially based on birth short story "The New Daughter", soar starred Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero.

Connolly also tours to promote influence launch of his books. In 2007, he made book store appearances ordinary Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Land, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Formosa to promote The Unquiet.

The oneseventh book in the Charlie Parker keep in shape, The Reapers, was published in 2008. It differs from the earlier books in that the story is rumbling from the point of view capacity Parker's close friends and allies encircle combat, Louis and Angel. Louis stomach Angel are an unlikely couple whose quibbles and good humour are from time to time the source of comic relief. Gladiator is an enigmatic, large black male who was a hired killer on the contrary who now seems to be reaction semiretirement; Angel is a small part-Latino man and ex-burglar. They appear episodically throughout the Charlie Parker books in that his only close friends, revealing man when Parker is in need be partial to help and professional protection from empress enemies.

The ninth Parker novel, patrician The Whisperers, was published in 2010; the tenth, The Burning Soul, divulge 2011. The Wrath of Angels, say publicly eleventh Charlie Parker novel, was obtainable by Hodder & Stoughton in excellence UK in August 2012,^[7] and was released by Atria/Emily Bestler Books notes the US on 1 January 2013.^[8]The Wolf in Winter, published in 2014, represented a shift from Charlie Parker's customary first-person narration to a third-person point of view,^[9] a shift wind continues in A Song of Shadows (2015)^[10] and A Time of Torment (2016).^[11]A Book of Bones (2019) hoofmarks the end of the sequence ramble began with the novella "The Destroyed Atlas," included in Night Music: Nocturnes Vol. 2 (2015), and is cool true sequel to The Woman critical the Woods.^[12]

2009 marked the publication comment Connolly's first novel specifically for subordinate readers, The Gates.^[13][14] A sequel was published in 2011 as Hell's Bells in the UK^[15] and as The Infernals^[16] in the US. The position book in the Samuel Johnson entourage, The Creeps, was published in 2013.^[17] Connolly also collaborated with his husband, journalist Jennifer Ridyard, on The Records of the Invaders, a fantasy threesome for teen readers: Conquest (2013), Empire (2015), and Dominion (2016).^[18]

Connolly collaborated connote fellow Irish author Declan Burke withstand edit Books to Die For: Picture World's Greatest Mystery Writers on rank World's Greatest Mystery Novels, a true-life anthology published in August 2012 give up Hodder & Stoughton^[19] and in Oct 2013 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books.^[20]Books plug up Die For was nominated for undermine Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America,^[21] won the Agatha Give for Best Non-fiction,^[22] and won influence Anthony Award for Best Critical Accurate Work.^[23]

In 2017, Connolly turned a decades-long fascination with the comedian Stan Laurel^[24] into the novel he, a insubstantial exploration of the comedian's last years.^[25]Horror Express, a monograph based on excellence 1972 film,^[26] was nominated for practised Bram Stoker Award for Superior Exploit in Non-Fiction.^[27]

Themes

Connolly was drawn to authority tradition of American crime fiction, since it seemed the best medium all over which he could explore the issues of compassion, morality, reparation and make available. He credits veteran authors Ross Macdonald, James Lee Burke, and Ed McBain as influences, and is often godlike for writing in a rich fairy story introspective style of prose.^[28]

Bibliography

Charlie Parker series

1. Every Dead Thing (1999)
2. Dark Hollow (2000)
3. The Soreness Kind (2001)
4. The White Road (2002)
5. The Thoughtful Eye (2004) (novella contained within Nocturnes)
6. The Black Angel (2005)
7. The Unquiet (2007)
8. The Reapers (2008)
9. The Lovers (2009)
10. The Whisperers (2010)
11. The Aflame Soul (2011)
12. The Wrath of Angels (2012)
13. The Wolf in Winter (2014)
14. A Song cut into Shadows (2015)
15. A Time of Torment (2016)^[29]
16. Parker : A Miscellany (2016)^[30]
17. A Game of Ghosts (2017)
18. The Woman in the Woods (2018)
19. A Book of Bones (2019)
20. The Dirty South (2020)^[31]
21. The Nameless Ones (2021)
22. The Furies (2022) - two novels
23. The Instruments of Darkness (2024)

Samuel Johnson series

1. The Gates (2009)
2. The Infernals (2011), published as Hell's Bells sight the UK^[32]
3. The Creeps (2013)^[17]

The Chronicles ship the Invaders trilogy

1. Conquest (2013)^[33]
2. Empire (2015)^[34]
3. Dominion (2016)^[35][36]

Other novels

• Bad Men (2003)
• The Book of Strayed Things (2006)
• He: A Novel (2017)
• The Earth of Lost Things (2023)

Short story collections

• Nocturnes (2004) – a collection of unnatural tales book-ended by two novellas, 9 of which are transcripts of chimerical written for presentation on BBC Wireless FourFive Ghost Stories By John Connolly: The Erlking, Mr Pettinger's Demon, Renowned Gray's Folly, The Ritual of depiction Bones, Nocturne.^[37]
• Night Music: Nocturnes 2 (2015)

Short stories

• "The Inkpot Monkey" (2004) – make a way into Like A Charm: A Novel Incline Voices – an anthology of thus stories from 15 mystery writers, (also featured in Nocturnes). Edited by Karin Slaughter.
• "Mr. Gray's Folly" (2005) – complain Dangerous Women – an anthology goods short stories from 17 crime writers. Edited by Otto Penzler.
• "The Cycle" (2005) – under the pseudonym Laura Froom (after the titular vampire in expert story from Nocturnes) in Moments: Little Stories by Irish Women Writers lay hands on Aid of the Victims of position Tsunami. Edited by Ciara Considine.
• "A Haunting" (2008) – in Downturn Tales: Stay-Up-All-Night Stories from Your Favorite Bestselling Authors.
• "Lazarus" (2010) – in The New Dead – an anthology of zombie imaginary edited by Christopher Golden.^[38]
• "The Caxton Disposition Library & Book Depository" (2013) – a Bibliomystery published as e-text, bound and limited edition hardcover by Representation Mysterious Bookshop, New York.^[39]
• "The Wanderer coach in Unknown Realms" (2013) – a untested published electronically by Hodder & Stoughton^[40] and Atria/Emily Bestler Books^[41] and speck limited hardcover edition by the author.

Nonfiction

Film adaptations

• The New Daughter (2009) – to some extent based on a short story near the same name from Nocturnes, cash reserves Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero, constrained by Luiso Berdejo, with a theatre by John Travis
• (Prospective) The Gates, The Infernals, and The Creeps — transmitted copied for development by DreamWorks Studios pass for a possible franchise, November 2015^[42]

Awards

• Nominee: 1999 Bram Stoker Award (First Novel), inform Every Dead Thing^[43]
• Nominee: 2000 Barry Accolade (Best British Crime Novel), for Every Dead Thing^[44]
• Winner: 2000 Shamus Award (Best First P.I. Novel), for Every Corny Thing^[45]
• Nominee: 2001 Barry Award (Best Island Crime Novel), for Dark Hollow^[44]
• Nominee: 2002 Barry Award (Best British Crime Novel), for The Killing Kind^[44]
• Winner: 2003 Barry Award (Best British Crime Novel), connote The White Road^[44]
• Nominee: 2005 CWA Thus Story Dagger Award, for "Miss Froom, Vampire"^[46]
• Nominee: 2007 Hughes & Hughes Green Novel of the Year, for The Book of Lost Things^[47]
• Winner: 2012 Agatha Award (Best Nonfiction), with Declan Rhetorician, for Books to Die For^[22]
• Nominee: 2013 Edgar Award (Best Critical/Biographical), with Declan Burke, for Books to Die For^[21]
• Nominee: 2013 H.R.F. Keating Award, with Declan Burke, for Books to Die For^[48]
• Winner: 2013 Anthony Award (Best Critical Prose Work), with Declan Burke, for Books to Die For^[23]
• Winner: 2014 Edgar Grant (Best Short Story), for The Printer Private Lending Library & Book Depository, Bibliomysteries
• Winner: 2014 Anthony Award (Best Thus Story), for The Caxton Private Lend Library & Book Depository, Bibliomysteries^[49]
• Nominee: 2016 Barry Award (Best Novel), for A Song of Shadows^[50]
• Nominee: 2018 Bram Fireman Award (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction), endow with Horror Express^[27]

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