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Michael Connelly
 Michael
Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of
Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he
decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in
creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was
novelist Harry Crews.
After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona
Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime
beat. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the
height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida
during the so-called cocaine wars. In 1986, he and two other reporters
spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash.
They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was
later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of
journalism, landing him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles
Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and bringing him to
the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written. After three
years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel
to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch.
HIS WEBSITE
www.michaelconnelly.com
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