B. The Biography of James Patterson Marshall Karp
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Biography about :
ames B. Patterson born March 22, 1947 is an American author. He is
largely known for his novels about fictional psychologist Alex Cross, the protagonist of the Alex Cross series. Patterson also wrote the Michael Bennett,
Womens Murder Club , Maximum Ride, Daniel X , and Witch and Wizard series,
as well as many stand-alone thrillers, nonfiction and romance novels. His books have sold more than 270 million copies.
His Early life and education:
Patterson was born in Newburgh, New York, on March 22, 1947, and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Manhattan College, along with a
Master of Arts in English from Vanderbilt University.
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After, Patterson retired from advertising in 1996.
His Career:
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He devoted his time to writing.
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James Patterson published his first novel in 1976 called The Thomas Berryman Number .
The novels featuring his character Alex Cross, a forensic psychologist formerly of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police and Federal
Bureau of Investigation who now works as a private psychologist and government consultant, are his most popular and the top-selling U.S. detective series in the
past ten years. Patterson has written 95 novels since 1976.
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He has had 19 consecutive No. 1 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York
Times record for most bestselling hardcover fiction titles by a single author, a total
of 76, which is also a Guinness World Record.
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His novels account for one in 17 of all hardcover novels sold in the United States; in recent years his novels have
sold more copies than those of Stephen King, John Grisham and Dan Brown combined.
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His books have sold approximately 260 million copies worldwide.
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Pattersons awards include the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guilds Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award,
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and the Childrens Choice Book Award for Author of the Year. He is the first author to have No. 1 new titles
simultaneously on The New York Times adult and childrens bestsellers lists, and to have two books on Novel Trackers top-ten list at the same time.
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He appeared on the FoxTVshow The Simpsons in the episode Yokel Chords and
in various episodes of Castle as himself. Patterson works with a variety of co- authors, such as Maxine Paetro, Andrew Gross, and Peter De Jonge
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and has
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often said that collaborating with others brings new and interesting ideas to his stories.
1. Footnote in his career:
Mahler, Jonathan January 20, 2010. James Patterson Inc.. The New York Times Magazine
. Retrieved May 6, 2012. 2.
Gaby Wood April 5, 2009. The Guardian. London: The Guardian.
Retrieved 2011-09-14. 3.
James Patterson – The official web site.
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JamesPatterson.com . JamesPatterson.com. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
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Jonathan Mahler, James Patterson Inc. The New York Times, January
20, 2010 6.
James Patterson. Savannah Book Festival. Retrieved October 23,
2012. 7.
McGrath, Charles May 5, 2009. An Authors Collaborator Goes It
Alone. The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
Patterson currently lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife, Susan, and son, Jack.
His Personal Life:
His Bestselling Author of Novel:
James Paterson is the bestselling author of the following novels:
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The Thomas Berryman Number 1976 288 Winner of the Edgar Award
for Best First Novel by an American Author , Season of the Machete 1977, The Jericho
Commandment 1979, Virgin 1980, Black Market
1986, The Midnight Club 1989, The Day America Told The Truth 1991,
Along Came a Spider 1993,
Kiss the Girls 1995, Hide Seek 1996, Miracle on the 17th Green 1996,
See How They Run 1997, 1st to Die
2001, The Lake House
2003, The Big
Bad Wolf 2003,
Honeymoon 2005,
Maximum Ride: Schools Out Forever 2006,
Judge and Jury 2006,
7th Heaven 2008,
Sundays at Tiffanys 2008,
Run for Your Life 2009,
The Postcard Killers 2010,
Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel
2011, Bloody Valentine 2011, 10th Anniversary 2011, Kill Me If You Can 2011,
Witch Wizard: The Fire 2011, Kill Alex Cross 2011,
Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure 2012, NYPD Red 2012,
Second Honeymoon 2013, Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar 2013, Treasure Hunters 2013, and
Cross My Heart 2013 . James Patterson has had
more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guiness World Records.
Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson’s books have sold more than 240 million copies.
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Biography of:
arshall Karp , has written and
produced numerous TV shows, plays, and movies. He is the author of the Lomax and Biggs book series. It’s been a great life so far. I’ve been a writer all my life.
Commercials, TV sitcoms, a play, a movie, and nobody wanted to know much about me. Now I’m author, and people are stalking me. Well, maybe not stalking,
but they sure have a lot of questions.
His Personal Life:
He was born in Manhattan, but grew up in a small factory town across the river in New Jersey. But New York was a magnet for me. Happily I had family to
visit in Harlem, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and every year I’d spend the summer with my aunt and uncle in Queens. His movie, Just looking is loosely based on those
summers. It’s about a 14-year old boy, who is fascinated with sex, but it’s 1955, so what’s he supposed to do? Well, in the movie, he does what I did in real life.
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In high school my favorite English teacher, Comelius O’Connor, encouraged me to write. But I knew his parents would be happier if I got a real
job, so I went to Rutgers University to study biology and become a dentist. Really, a dentist.
Fortunately, I flunked biology. But I did well in English composition, and I was writing for the school paper, so I muddled through as an English major, with
no real plans for what to do after graduation. After writing a couple of pilot series for ABC-TV, NBC hired Karp as writer-producer for the hit show Amen. But he
got homesick while in Hollywood, moved back east, and went back into advertising. When the dot com days came around, Karp started an internet
advertising agency, Compelling Content, and sold the company five years later, at which time he started writing full time.
Marshall Karp’s first published novel was The Rabbit Factory, which was the first in the Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs series. He continued the series with
Blood Thirsty, Flipping Out March 2010, and his most recent novel. Karp’s most inspirational line to write by is “Right Now”, where is the heart and mind of
the character you’re writing about? “It’s a constant reminder that the book is about them; not about him. He says that he’s just a conduit. And there are moments
when the characters take over so completely that he has to call his wife and say “you want believe what Lomax just did.” Uncle Sam, however, had serious plans.
He had 110 percent chance of getting drafted, but I didn’t want to go to war. It wasn’t a political statement. It’s this phobia I have about being in a jungle with
people shooting at me. So He’s Leonard Wood, Missouri. I learned to build
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bridges, wrote letters to the girl back home, drove the 860 mile round trip to Chicago with my friend Barry Labovitz as many weekends as we could, and not
much else.
Marshall Karps writing career has spanned a wide range of fields, from advertising and marketing to television, screen, and stage. He is the author of the
play Squabbles and the screenwriter for the 2000 film Just Looking. He has written four novels featuring the detective team of Lomax and Biggs: The Rabbit
Factory 2006,
His Career:
Bloodthirsty: A Lomax Biggs Mystery 2007, Bloodthirsty 2011, Flipping Out 2009,
Cartoon French Edition 2009, and Cut Paste, Kill
2010. Karp lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
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