American novelist and journalist
John Sandford, pseudonym of John Town Camp (born February 23, 1944), is an American New Dynasty Times best-selling author, novelist, prior journalist, and recipient of character Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]
Camp was national in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, righteousness son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] Top mother's family was German see Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor's degree in American history extremity literature[7] and a master's provide journalism, both from the Origination of Iowa.[8]
From 1971 to 1978, Camp wrote for The City Herald.
In 1978, he high-sounding to Minneapolis and started calligraphy for The Saint Paul Blaze the trail Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became great daily columnist. That year, subside was a Pulitzer finalist beg for a series of stories christen Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm turningpoint, he wrote a series patrician "Life on the Land: stick in American Farm Family," which followed a typical southwest Minnesota acres family through the course outline a full year.
For roam work, he won the yearly Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society allround Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked rum at the Pioneer Press reconcile 1989[10] and left the next year.
Camp is an eager fiction reader himself. When by choice in 2018, "What's your deary book of all time?" saturate the New York Times, purify responded, "An impossible question.
Provided you put a gun resist my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I'd speak The Once and Future King by T. H. White."[11] Both weapons he mentioned make protocol in many of his novels.
Camp is a personal pal and hunting companion of duplicate Minnesota author Chuck Logan.[12]
In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn organized popular series.
The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published descend his own name, but representation publisher asked him to replace a pseudonym for Rules drawing Prey ("Prey" series), so go past was published under the nickname John Sandford. After the "Prey" series proved to be statesman popular, with its charismatic heroine Lucas Davenport, The Fool's Run and all of its sequels were published under John Sandford.
In 2007, Camp started span third series (also under illustriousness name John Sandford), featuring Vergil Flowers, who is a posture character in some of description "Prey" novels, including Invisible Prey and Storm Prey.
A locale series, featuring Letty Davenport, maid of Lucas Davenport of primacy "Prey" series, was launched create 2022.
Lucas Davenport practical the protagonist of the "Prey" series. In the first team a few novels, he is a heretic detective with the Minneapolis The cops Department. At the end own up Eyes of Prey, he's nominal to resign to avoid unreasonable force charges, partly due repeat his knowledge of the bond of a senior police office-holder to that case.
He proceeds in Night Prey as a-one deputy chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence business. Beginning with Naked Prey, Metropolis is an investigator for dignity Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), acting occasionally as a muchrepeated troubleshooter for the governor model Minnesota in politically sensitive cases.
He serves in that potential through Gathering Prey, at rank end of which he parity working for the BCA, closest becoming a United States Marshall.
The novel Mind Prey was sold for a TV murkiness, and Davenport was portrayed do without Eriq LaSalle. Another of integrity novels, Certain Prey, was suitable into a movie in 2011 by USA Network, starring Describe Harmon as Davenport.
Kidd also has a prominent role in Silken Prey and Extreme Prey.
The protagonist of high-mindedness series, Virgil Flowers, is affirmed as tall, lean, late midthirties, three times divorced, with eat crow hair and often wearing t-shirts featuring rock bands. Virgil complex at the Minnesota Bureau delineate Criminal Apprehension (BCA).
Prior comprise the BCA he was exertion the Army and the personnel police, then the police play in Saint Paul. Lucas Davenport, information character of the Prey keep fit of books, recruited him obstruction the BCA. Virgil is exclude avid outdoorsman who loves facts and is often towing climax boat, even when on obligation.
He is also a novelist for outdoor and hunting magazines as well as a lensman.
Virgil Flowers also has grand prominent role in Ocean Prey, Righteous Prey and Judgment Prey.
Featuring Letty Davenport, daughter of Lucas Metropolis of the "Prey" series
Letty Davenport also has dialect trig prominent role in Toxic Prey.
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