Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver
Deaver at a Waterstones bookstore in London, 2012
Born	(1950-05-06) May 6, 1950 (age 76) Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S.
Education	University of Missouri (BJ) Fordham University (JD)
Occupation	Writer
Writing career
Genres	Mystery fiction, crime writer, thriller
Website	www.jefferydeaver.com

Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University. He began his career as a journalist and later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Award from The Wolfe Pack. He is also a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Los Angeles Times.

Life and career

Deaver was born near Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His mother was an artist, and his father an advertising writer. His sister Julie Deaver is an author of young adult novels. He was inspired to write by From Russia With Love, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming.

Deaver's most popular series features Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective, and NYPD Detective Amelia Sachs.^{[citation needed]}

Deaver's 2001 book,The Blue Nowhere, features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), and a law enforcement computer crime unit. In it, Deaver pays homage to Lee de Forest, the inventor of the Audion (also known as the triode tube), who is considered to have opened the world to electronic development.

Deaver edited The Best American Mystery Stories 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Three of Deaver's novels have been made into films:^{[citation needed]}

• A Maiden's Grave adapted as Dead Silence (1997)
• The Bone Collector (1999)
• The Devil's Teardrop (2010)

The Bone Collector was adapted as a television series, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector. Tracker, a television series based on his novel The Never Game, premiered in 2024.^{[citation needed]}

Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina. It was broadcast on Audible.com from September 25 to November 13, 2007. It is also available in print.^{[citation needed]}

Deaver was chosen to write a new James Bond novel: Carte Blanche is set in 2011 and was published on May 25, 2011. He is the second American author to write Bond novels, after Raymond Benson.^{[citation needed]}

Published works

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Adaptations

• Dead Silence (1997) A HBO film based on A Maiden's Grave. Starring James Garner, Kim Coates, Marlee Matlin and Lolita Davidovich.
• The Bone Collector (1999) A feature film based on The Bone Collector. Starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker and Ed O'Neill.
• The Devil's Teardrop (2010) A Lifetime television film based on The Devil's Teardrop. Starring Tom Everett Scott and Natasha Henstridge.
• Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (2020) An NBC television series, based on The Bone Collector. Starring Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel.
• Tracker (2024) A CBS television series, based on The Never Game. Starring Justin Hartley, Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany, Eric Graise, Fiona Rene, and Wendy Crewson.

References

External links

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