Greg Iles

Greg Iles
Greg Iles in 2013
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Stuttgart, West Germany
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter

Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published seventeen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres.

Early life

Iles was born in 1960 in Stuttgart, West Germany, where his physician father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic. He was raised in Natchez, Mississippi, the setting of many of his novels.[1] After attending Trinity Episcopal Day School, he graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.

Career

Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet.[2] He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Spandau Phoenix was published in 1993.

In 2002, Iles wrote the screenplay 24 Hours from his novel of the same name. Rewritten by director Don Roos, it was renamed Trapped. Iles then rewrote the script during the shoot, at the request of the producers and actors.[3]

In 2011, Iles was seriously injured in a traffic accident on U.S. Route 61 near Natchez.[4] He sustained life-threatening injuries, including a ruptured aorta.[5] He was put into an induced coma for eight days, and lost his right leg below the knee. During his three-year recovery, he wrote three volumes of a trilogy set in Natchez, Mississippi, and featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage.[6][7]

Iles is a member of the literary musical group The Rock Bottom Remainders, which includes or has included authors Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, and James McBride.[8] In July 2013, he co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the group.[9] The ebook combines essays, fiction, musings, email exchanges and conversations, photographs, audio and video clips, and interactive quizzes to give readers a view into the private lives of the authors/musicians.

Works

Fiction

  • Spandau Phoenix (1993) ISBN 0-525-93604-1
  • Black Cross (1995) ISBN 0-525-93829-X
  • Mortal Fear (1997) ISBN 0-525-93792-7
  • The Quiet Game (1999) ISBN 0-525-93793-5
  • 24 Hours (2000) ISBN 0-399-14624-5
  • Dead Sleep (2001) ISBN 0-399-14735-7
  • Sleep No More (2002) ISBN 0-399-14881-7
  • The Footprints of God (2003) (also titled Dark Matter) ISBN 0-340-82274-0
  • Blood Memory (2005) ISBN 0-7432-3470-7
  • Turning Angel (2005) ISBN 0-7432-3471-5
  • True Evil (2006) ISBN 0-7432-9249-9
  • Third Degree (2007) ISBN 978-1-4165-2454-0
  • The Devil's Punchbowl (2009) ISBN 978-0-7432-9251-1
  • The Death Factory (2014) novella ISBN 978-0-0623-3669-9
  • Natchez Burning (2014) ISBN 978-0-0623-1108-5
  • The Bone Tree (2015) ISBN 978-0-0623-1112-2
  • Mississippi Blood (2017) ISBN 978-0-0623-1116-0
  • Cemetery Road (2019) ISBN 978-0-0628-2468-4
  • Southern Man (2024) ISBN 978-0-0628-2469-1

Nonfiction

  • Hard Listening (2013), with Rock Bottom Remainders

References

  1. ^ Sickler, Linda (February 12, 2015). "Author Greg Iles to discuss 'Natchez Burning' and et gregolrsle o pother works at book festival". Savannah Morning News. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Daley, Kelli (August 2003). "Greg Iles Takes on God ... and If the Almighty Wasn't Enough to Worry about, Now He's Got to Watch out for Dave Barry, Too". Archived from the original on 2020-09-09.
  3. ^ "Interview with Greg Iles". The Strand Magazine. March 6, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  4. ^ "Author Greg Iles injured in traffic accident". The Washington Post/Associated Press. March 8, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Watkins, Billy (April 27, 2014). "Author Greg Iles rebounds from near-fatal wreck". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  6. ^ Sheehan, Bill (May 1, 2014). "With 'Natchez Burning,' Greg Iles is back better than ever". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  7. ^ Hyde, Paul (May 5, 2014). "Tragedy changed Greg Iles book 'Natchez Burning'". The Greenville News. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  8. ^ Burch, Cathalena E. (March 11, 2015). "Rock Bottom Remainders: Not the best band, but the most literary". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  9. ^ "Hard Listening".