VJ Books Features John Straley!

Straley’s bestselling novels include: The Woman Who Married a Bear (1993 Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel), The Curious Eat Themselves, The Music of What Happens (Spotted Owl Award for the best Northwest mystery of the year from the Friends of Mystery, Portland, Oregon), Death and the Language of Happiness, The Angels Will Not Care, and Cold Water Burning (nominated for best novel of the year by the Private Eye Writers of America). His paperbacks were published by SOHO Press and Bantam Books of New York.

His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Connotations, The Seattle Times, and New World Order, Runes, Wabash Magazine, and The Sonora Review. Essays and short stories have appeared in the anthologies: Men to Boys, Mysterious North, Powers of Detection, Connotations, The Book of Tongass, and These United States: Leading American Writers on Their State in the Union. His work has been featured on Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning.

John has taught students of all ages in a variety of locations from preschool in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City to UAS and the Island Institute in Sitka. He currently works as a public defender and in the past as a criminal investigator, U.S. Forest Service foreman, farrier, and mountain guide. In Alaska, John has been involved in oral history and storytelling, radio production and biological research projects.

John was born in Redwood City, California. He is married to Janice Morrison Straley, a marine biologist. They have lived in Sitka, Alaska since 1977 and have one son, Finn McHattie Straley.

John Straley Signed First Edition

John Straley Signed First Edition

John Straley Signed First Edition

John Straley Signed First Edition

John Straley Signed First Edition

John Straley Signed First Edition