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Jeffery Deaver
 Deaver wrote his first book — which consisted of two entire
chapters — when he was eleven, and he's been writing ever
since. An award-winning poet and journalist, he has also written and
performed his own songs around the country. After receiving a Bachelor
of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Deaver worked as
a magazine writer, then, to gain the background needed to become a
legal correspondent for The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, he
enrolled at Fordham Law School. After graduation he decided to practice
law for a time and worked for several years as an attorney for a large
Wall Street firm. It was during his long commute to and from the office
that he began writing the type of fiction he enjoyed reading: suspense
novels. In 1990 he started to write full time.
The author of twenty-three novels and two collections of short stories,
Deaver has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers
of America, an Anthony award, a Gumshoe Award, and is a three-time
recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of
the Year. In 2001, he won the W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award for
his Lincoln Rhyme novel The Empty Chair. In 2004, he was awarded the
Crime Writers Association of Great Britain's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Award for Garden Of Beasts and the Short Story Dagger for "The
Weekender." Translated into 25 languages, his novels have appeared on a
number of bestseller lists around the world, including the New York
Times, The Times of London, and the Los Angeles Times. The
Bone Collector was a feature release from Universal Pictures,
starring Denzel Washington as Lincoln Rhyme. A Maiden's Grave was made
into an HBO film retitled Dead Silence, starring James Garner and
Marlee Matlin.
HIS WEBSITE
www.jefferydeaver.com
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