ABOUT LEE CHILD
An English thriller writer, he is best known for his Jack Reacher books, which focus on a former policeman who travels throughout the United States. The first novel in the series, Killing Floor, was a recipient of the Anthony Award.
He was an executive with the UK's ITV network and was let go in a round of corporate restructuring. He published his first novel in 1997.
He joined up with more than a dozen other writers to create a collaborative, 17-part audiobook thriller called The Chopin Manuscript. The work was narrated by actor Alfred Molina .
He was born Jim Grant in Coventry, England. He took on the pen name Lee as a nod to a family joke and used the family name Child so that his work could be put on the bookshelf next to the mystery novels of Agatha Christie . He married Jane Grant and has a daughter named Ruth.
In his youth, he studied at the King Edward's School in Birmingham, England, which Lord of the Rings author, J.R.R. Tolkien , had also attended.
