• Best-selling crime writer.
    • The first Bosch book won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best First Novel of 1992
    • He was part of the Sun-Sentinel's reporting team nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1985 Delta Flight 191 crash aftermath
    • Nominated for a Pulitzer
    • President of the "Mystery Writers of America" organization

  • Michael Connelly is an American novelist who began his career as a crime reporter. His most recognizable body of work features books about LAPD Detective "Harry Bosch".

  • Harry Bosch Series

    1. 1992: The Black Echo
    2. 1993: The Black Ice
    3. 1994: The Concrete Blonde
    4. 1995: The Last Coyote
    5. 1997: Trunk Music
    6. 1999: Angels Flight
    7. 2001: A Darkness More Than Night
    8. 2002: City Of Bones
    9. 2003: Lost Light
    10. 2004: The Narrows
    11. 2005: The Closers
    12. 2006: Echo Park
    13. 2006: The Overlook

  • Quotes

    • "That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst." - Michael Connelly
    • "I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front line of law enforcement. I still have a cadre of cops who keep me up to date, but I don't have the access I used to." - Michael Connelly
    • "In the six years I've been writing books, that is the biggest thrill I've had." (remark to USA Today in 1994, when then President Clinton was photographed walking out of a Washington bookstore with a copy of "The Concrete Blonde") - Michael Connelly
    • "Write every day even if it is just a paragraph." (his best advice to aspiring writers) - Michael Connelly

  • Did You Know?

    • After graduation he covered the crime beat at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale.
    • Decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending college.
    • Former Los Angeles Times crime reporter.
    • Graduated from the University of Florida, where he majored in journalism and minored in creative writing.
    • Won the Edgar Award for the best first novel, "The Black Echo". He has since won every major mystery honor, including the Anthony and the Macavity Award for "Blood Work"

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