Jim Grant, better known as
Lee Child, was born 29. October 1954 in Coventry, England. When he
was four years old, his parents moved him and his three brothers to
Handsworth Wood in Bermingham, where he first attended to Cherry
Orchard Primary School until the age of 11. Then he attended to King
Edward's School. At the age of 20 (year
1974) he studied law at Sheffield University, But he had no intention
to work within the legal profession. He worked in commercial television
as a writer after he graduated.1
Grant decided to start
writing novels when he was made redundant from his work due to
corporate reconstructing. When he started writing novels, he stated that books are “The purest form for entertaining”2
He published his first novel, Killing Floor, in the year 1997. The
year after, he moved to The United States.
His pen name, Lee, was a
family joke about mispronouncing Renault's Le Car. He chose his other
pen name, Child, so his novels would be placed in the bookstore
shelves between crime fiction star Raymond Chandler and Agate
Christie.
Since he started to write
novels, he has written 17 books about Jack Reacher. Reacher quit his
job as a former Major in the United State Army Military Police Corp
at the age 36, He now roams the United States investigating suspicious
and dangerous situations and taking odd jobs. On 21. December 2012 a
film was released about Jack Reavher.
He has won many prices and
has been nominated for many awards. His first book, Killing Floor, is the one that has won most prizes. Some of his later books have also earned nominations for awards.
Today Lee Child is one of
the world's bestselling and most prizewinning authors. He has been on
the top of the bestseller lists in New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Publisher Weekly, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and
Sunday Times.
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