Lee Child

British thriller writer (born 1954)

This article is about the British writer. For the Irish rugby league footballer, see Lee Child (rugby league). For the British tennis player, see Lee Childs.

Lee Child

CBE

Child at Bouchercon XLI, 2010

Born| James Dover Grant
(1954-10-29) 29 October 1954 (age 70)
Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Occupation| Author
Education| King Edward's School, Birmingham
Alma mater| University of Sheffield (LLB)
Period| 1985–present
Genre| Crime fiction, mystery, thriller
Notable works| Jack Reacher series of novels
Spouse|

Jane Grant

(m. 1975)​

Children| 1
Relatives| Andrew Grant (brother)
Signature

Lee Child's voice

Recorded December 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub

James Dover Grant[1] CBE (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series.[2] The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor (1997), won both the Anthony Award and the 1998 Barry Award for Best First Novel.[3][4]

## Early life and education

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Grant was born in Coventry.[5] His Northern Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born.[6][7] He is the second of four sons;[8] his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's family moved to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old so that the boys could receive a better education.[9] Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham.[10]

In 1974, at the age of 20, Grant studied law[11] at University of Sheffield, though he had no intention of entering the legal profession. During his student days, he worked backstage in a theatre.[7] After graduating, he worked in commercial television.[11] He received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Sheffield in 1977 and returned to the university to receive an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) in 2009.[12]

## Career

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### Television production career

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Grant at Bouchercon XL, 2009

Grant joined Granada Television, part of the UK's ITV Network, in Manchester as a presentation director.[13] There he was involved with shows including Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. Grant was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programmes for Granada, writing thousands of commercials and news stories.[14] He worked at Granada from 1977 to 1995[7] and ended his career there with two years as a trade union shop steward.[15]

### Writing career

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After losing his job because of corporate restructuring,[13] Grant decided to start writing novels, which he later called "purest form of entertainment."[16] In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor, was published, and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.[11] He starts each new book of the series on an anniversary of his starting the first book after losing his job.[17]

His pen name "Lee" comes from a mispronunciation of the name of Renault's Le Car, as "Lee Car". Calling anything "Lee" became a family gag. His daughter, Ruth, was "lee child".[18] The name has the advantage of placing his books alphabetically on bookshop and library shelves between crime fiction greats Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie.[13]

Grant has said that he came up with the name Reacher for the central character in his novels when he was grocery shopping with his wife Jane at Asda supermarket in Kendal, Cumbria, when he was living at Kirkby Lonsdale.[19] Grant's height often leads to people asking him to get something for them from a high shelf. Jane once joked: "'Hey, if this writing thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a reacher in a supermarket.' ... 'I thought, Reacher – good name.'"[7]

Some books in the Jack Reacher series are written in the first person, while others are written in the third person. Grant has characterised the books as revenge stories – "Somebody does a very bad thing, and Reacher takes revenge" – driven by his anger at the downsizing at Granada. Although English, he deliberately chose to write American-style thrillers.[13] In 2007, Grant collaborated with 14 other writers to create the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript, narrated by Alfred Molina. This was broadcast weekly on Audible.com between 25 September 2007 and 13 November 2007.

Grant worked as a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield from November 2008. In 2009, Grant funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for students at the university.[20]

Grant was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America in 2009.[21] Grant was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2018, part of the Harrogate International Festivals portfolio.[22]

In 2019, it was announced that Child would curate a new TV show called Lee Child: True Crime. The show will dramatise real-life crime stories from around the world and focus on average people who go to extraordinary lengths to fight crime or seek justice.[23]

In January 2020, Child announced that he would retire from writing the Jack Reacher series and hand it to his brother Andrew Grant, who would write further books of the series under the surname Child.[24] He intended to write the next few books with Grant before passing the series entirely over to him.[25]

### Writing style

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Grant's prose has been described as "hardboiled" and "commercial" in style. In a 2012 interview, Grant said many aspects of the Jack Reacher novels were meant to maintain the books' profitability, rather than for literary reasons. For instance, Jack Reacher was given one French parent in part to increase the series' appeal in France. The interviewer wrote that Grant "didn't apologise about the commercial nature" of his fiction.[26]

Child has listed John D. MacDonald, Alistair MacLean, and Robert B. Parker as influences on the Reacher series.[27]

### Other activities

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In 2019, Child collaborated with musicians Jennifer and Scott Smith of the group Naked Blue on an album of music exploring Jack Reacher, in song. He contributed vocals to the track "Reacher Said Nothing."[28]

In 2020 Child joined the Booker Prize judging panel, alongside chair Margaret Busby, Sameer Rahim, Lemn Sissay, and Emily Wilson.[29][30][31]

## Philanthropy

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In January 2012, Grant donated £10,000 for a new vehicle for the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team in Wales.[32]

Grant is an annual sponsor and original member of ThrillerFest.[33]

## Personal life

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Grant married his wife Jane in 1975. They have a daughter.[11][7] They moved to New York state in 1998 at the beginning of his writing career.

Grant is a fan of Aston Villa Football Club;[34] his books sometimes include the names of Aston Villa players.[35]

In 2013, Grant rejected claims that he wrote while under the influence of marijuana that were initially reported in the Daily Mail.[36]

## Works

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### Novels

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Jack Reacher series:

Pub. order  | Title  | Year  | ISBN  | Perspective

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1  | Killing Floor | 1997  | 0-593-04143-7 | 1st Person
2  | Die Trying | 1998  | 0-593-04144-5 | 3rd Person
3  | Tripwire | 1999  | 0-593-04393-6 | 3rd Person
4  | The Visitor (UK), or Running Blind (US)  | 2000  | 0-593-04399-5 | 2nd/3rd Person
5  | Echo Burning | 2001  | 0-593-04659-5 | 3rd Person
6  | Without Fail | 2002  | 0-593-04686-2 | 3rd Person
7  | Persuader | 2003  | 0-593-04689-7 | 1st Person
8  | The Enemy | 2004  | 0-593-05182-3 | 1st Person
9  | One Shot | 2005  | 0-593-05183-1 | 3rd Person
10  | The Hard Way | 2006  | 978-0-593-05184-9 | 3rd Person
11  | Bad Luck and Trouble | 2007  | 978-0-593-05701-8 | 3rd Person
12  | Nothing to Lose | 2008  | 978-0-593-05702-5 | 3rd Person
13  | Gone Tomorrow | 2009  | 978-0-593-05705-6 | 1st Person
14  | 61 Hours | 2010  | 978-0-593-05706-3 | 3rd Person
15  | Worth Dying For | 2010  | 978-0-593-06566-2 | 3rd Person
16  | The Affair | 2011  | 978-0-593-06570-9 | 1st Person
17  | A Wanted Man | 2012  | 978-0-593-06573-0 | 3rd Person
18  | Never Go Back | 2013  | 978-0-593-06574-7 | 3rd Person
19  | Personal | 2014  | 978-0-593-07382-7 | 1st Person
20  | Make Me | 2015  | 978-0-593-07388-9 | 3rd Person
21  | Night School | 2016  | 978-0-593-07390-2 | 3rd Person
22  | The Midnight Line | 2017  | 978-0-593-07818-1 | 3rd Person
23  | Past Tense[37] | 2018  | 978-0-593-07819-8 | 3rd Person
24  | Blue Moon[38] | 2019  | 978-1-78763-219-6 | 3rd Person
25^  | The Sentinel[39] | 2020  | 978-1-78763-361-2 | 3rd Person
26^  | Better Off Dead | 2021  | 978-1-78763-373-5 | 1st Person
27^  | No Plan B | 2022  | 978-1-78763-375-9 | 3rd Person
28^  | The Secret | 2023  | 978-1-78763-377-3 | 3rd Person
29^  | In Too Deep | 2024  | 978-0-85750-559-0 | 3rd Person
30^  | Exit Strategy | 2025  |  |

Note: For consistency, ISBN is that of the Bantam Press (UK) hardcover, first printing only.
^ by Lee Child and Andrew Child

### Non-fiction

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* The Hero, Publication: London: TLS Books, 2019 ISBN 978-0-00-835578-4.

### Short stories

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Collections:

* No Middle Name (2017), collection of two novellas and ten short stories from the Jack Reacher series:

"Too Much Time" (novella), "Deep Down", "Everyone Talks", "Guy Walks into a Bar", "High Heat" (novella), "James Penney's New Identity" (1999 version), "Maybe They Have a Tradition", "No Room at the Motel", "Not a Drill", "Second Son", "Small Wars", "The Picture of the Lonely Diner"
* Safe Enough (2024), collection of twenty short stories:

"The Bodyguard", "The Greatest Trick of All", "Ten Keys", "Safe Enough", "Normal in Every Way", "The .50 Solution", "Public Transportation", "Me and Mr. Rafferty", "Section 7 (a) (Operational)", "Addicted to Sweetness", "The Bone-Headed League", "I Heard a Romantic Story", "My First Drug Trial", "Wet with Rain", "The Truth About What Happened", "Pierre, Lucien & Me", "New Blank Document", "Shorty and the Briefcase", "Dying for a Cigarette", "The Snake Eater by the Numbers"

Jack Reacher series:

Title  | Year  | Notes

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"James Penney's New Identity"  | 1999, edited 2006  | The 1999 version is longer. Collected in Fresh Blood 3 (edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski) and in Thriller (US)
"Guy Walks into a Bar"  | 2009  | Prequel to novel Gone Tomorrow, in The New York Times[40]
"Second Son"  | 2011  | Electronic short story (August 2011)
"Knowing you're Alive"  | 2011  | With M. J. Rose. Crossover with Butterfield Institute series. Collected in In Session
"Everyone Talks"  | 2012  | In Esquire (June 2012, US edition)
"Deep Down"  | 2012  | Electronic short story (July 2012)
"High Heat"  | 2013  | Electronic novella (August 2013)
"Good and Valuable Consideration"  | 2014  | With Joseph Finder. Crossover with Nick Heller series. Collected in Face Off (edited by David Baldacci, June 2014)
"Not a Drill"  | 2014  | Electronic short story (July 2014)
"No Room at the Motel"  | 2014  | In Stylist (December 2014)
"The Picture of the Lonely Diner"  | 2015  | Collected in MWA Presents Manhattan Mayhem (June 2015)
"Small Wars"  | 2015  | Electronic short story
"Maybe they Have a Tradition"  | 2016  | In Country Life (December 2016)
"Too Much Time"  | 2017  | Novella
"Faking a Murderer"  | 2017  | With Kathy Reichs. Crossover with Temperance Brennan series. Collected in Matchup (June 2017)
"The Christmas Scorpion"  | 2017  | In The Mail on Sunday (December 2017)
"The Fourth Man"  | 2018  | Included in Australian paperback of Past Tense
"Cleaning the Gold"  | 2019  | With Karin Slaughter. Crossover with Will Trent series (May 2019)
"Smile"  | 2019  | Collected in Invisible Blood (July 2019)
"New Kid in Town"  | 2022  | Collected in Hotel California (May 2022)
"Many Happy Returns"  | 2023  | In The Spectator (December 2023)
"Over Easy"  | 2024  | Included in Australian paperback of Safe Enough (August 2024)

Other short stories:

* "The Snake Eater by the Numbers", chapter six from the serialized novel Like a Charm (2004, edited by Karin Slaughter)
* "Ten Keys", collected in The Cocaine Chronicles (2005, edited by Jervey Tervalon and Gary Phillips)
* "The Greatest Trick of All", collected in Greatest Hits (2005, edited by Robert J. Randisi), and in The Best British Mysteries IV (2007)
* "Safe Enough", collected in MWA Presents Death Do Us Part (2006)
* "The .50 Solution", collected in Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology (2006)
* Chapter 15 from audio serialized novel The Chopin Manuscript (2007)
* "Public Transportation", collected in Phoenix Noir (2009)
* One chapter from audio serialized novel The Copper Bracelet (2009)
* Story collected in The World's Greatest Crime Writers tell the inside Story of Their Great Detectives, or The Line Up (2010), about Jack Reacher and his origins
* "Me and Mr. Rafferty", collected in The Dark End of the Street (2010, edited by Jonathan Santlofer and S. J. Rozan)
* "Section 7 (a) (Operational)", collected in Agents of Treachery (2010)
* "The Bodyguard", collected in First Thrills (2010, edited by Lee Child)
* "Addicted to Sweetness", collected in MWA Presents The Rich and the Dead (2011, edited by Nelson DeMille)
* "The Bone-Headed League", collected in A Study in Sherlock (2011)
* "I Heard a Romantic Story", collected in Love is Murder (2012)
* "The Hollywood I Remember", collected in Vengeance (2012, edited by Lee Child)
* "My First Drug Trial", collected in The Marijuana Chronicles (July 2013)
* "Wet with Rain", collected in Belfast Noir (November 2014)
* "The Truth About What Happened", collected in In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (December 2016)
* "Chapter 6: The Fortune Cookie" from the novel Anatomy of Innocence (March 2017)
* "Pierre, Lucien & Me", collected in Alive in Shape and Color (December 2017)
* "New Blank Document", collected in It Occurs to Me that I am America (January 2018)
* "Shorty and the Briefcase", collected in Ten Year Stretch (April 2018)
* "Dying for a Cigarette", collected in The Nicotine Chronicles (2020)
* "Normal in Every Way", collected in Deadly Anniversaries (2020)

## Adaptations

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* Jack Reacher (2012), film directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie, based on novel One Shot. An American thriller film starring Tom Cruise. Grant made a cameo appearance as a police desk sergeant in the film.[41]
* Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), film directed by Edward Zwick, and written by Richard Wenk, Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz, based on the novel Never Go Back. With Tom Cruise reprising the role. In the film, the final scene is set in New Orleans, which was not a location in the book. Grant made a cameo appearance as an airport ticket agent in the film.
* Reacher (2022), an Amazon Prime series starring Alan Ritchson. In the last episode of season 1, Grant can be seen in the last chapter as a man walking out of the diner who says "Excuse me" when passing Reacher. Reacher then speaks to Finlay and eats a piece of peach pie.

## Awards

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### Awards of novels

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Child receiving a Barry Award in 2005 for The Enemy. Novel title  | Year  | Awards/Nominations

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Killing Floor | 1997  | Anthony Award; Barry Award; Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize; Dilys Award nominee; Macavity Award nominee
Die Trying | 1998  | WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award
Without Fail | 2002  | Dilys Award nominee; Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award nominee
Persuader | 2003  | Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award nominee
The Enemy | 2004  | Barry Award; Nero Award; Dilys Award nominee
One Shot | 2005  | Macavity Award nominee
Bad Luck and Trouble | 2007  | Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2009[42]
61 Hours | 2010  | Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2011
A Wanted Man | 2012  | Specsavers' National Book Award, Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year[43]
Personal | 2014  | RBA Prize for Crime Writing valued at €125,000[44]

### Honorary degrees

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Child has received honorary degrees from several universities. These include:

Location  | Date  | School  | Degree

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England  | 2009  | University of Sheffield | Doctor of Letters (DLitt)[45][46]
England  | 21 July 2011  | De Montfort University | Doctor of Letters (DLitt)[47]
England  | 2023  | Coventry University | Doctor of Letters (DLitt)

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2018)

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### Other awards

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Year  | Award

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2005  | The Bob Kellogg Good Citizen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Internet Writing Community[citation needed]
2013  | Cartier Diamond Dagger, lifetime achievement by the Crime Writers' Association[48]
2017  | ThrillerMaster, lifetime achievement, by the International Thriller Writers association[49]
2017  | Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction, lifetime achievement, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival, Harrogate International Festivals[50]
2019  | Author of the Year, lifetime achievement, British Book Awards[51]

## Honours

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Grant was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to literature.[52]

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## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lee Child.

Wikiquote has quotations related to Lee Child.

* Official website, featuring Lee Child's blog, forum, bibliography and excerpts
* Lee Child's books from U.S. Publisher Bantam Dell
* Lee Child at the Internet Book List
* Interview with Lee Child Archived 30 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine at readingandwritingpodcast.com
* "Interview: Lee Child". The Telegraph. 1 April 2007.
* "Lee Child's heaven and hell", Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2007
* "Lee Child on creating Jack Reacher", The Times, 25 August 2012.

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Novel series|

* Killing Floor
* Die Trying
* Tripwire
* The Visitor
* Echo Burning
* Without Fail
* Persuader
* The Enemy
* One Shot
* The Hard Way
* Bad Luck and Trouble
* Nothing to Lose
* Gone Tomorrow
* 61 Hours
* Worth Dying For
* The Affair
* A Wanted Man
* Never Go Back
* Personal
* Make Me
* Night School
* The Midnight Line
* Past Tense
* Blue Moon
* The Sentinel
* Better Off Dead
* No Plan B
* The Secret
* In Too Deep
* Exit Strategy

Collections|

* No Middle Name

Adaptations|

* Jack Reacher (film, 2012)
* Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (film, 2016)
* Reacher (television, 2022–)
* Neagley (forthcoming)

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* 2008: Andrea Camilleri
* 2009: Philip Kerr
* 2010: Harlan Coben
* 2011: Patricia Cornwell
* 2012: Michael Connelly
* 2013: Arnaldur Indriðason
* 2014: Lee Child
* 2015: Don Winslow
* 2016: Ian Rankin
* 2017: Benjamin Black
* 2018: Walter Mosley

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