For other people named Michael Connelly, see Michael Connelly (disambiguation).
Michael Connelly
Connelly at the detective fiction convention Bouchercon XLI in San Francisco, October 2010
Born
(1956-07-21) July 21, 1956 (age 67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
Education
St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Alma mater
University of Florida
Genre
Crime fiction, thriller
Spouse
Linda McCaleb
(m. 1984)
Children
1
Website
michaelconnelly.com
Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956[1]) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.
Connelly is the bestselling author of 38 novels and one work of non-fiction, with over 74 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into 40 languages. His first novel, The Black Echo, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1997 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of Connelly's novel The Lincoln Lawyer starred Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller.[2] Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004.[3]
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numerous bestselling books by notable authors including Ian Rankin, MichaelConnelly, Nemir Kirdar and Quentin Tarantino. Orion Books was launched in 1992...
based on the novels centered on the character of the same name by MichaelConnelly. The first season of the series was released on Amazon Prime Video...
Soderbergh, and Paul Verhoeven. Connelly, Michael (January 7, 2010). ""The Black Ice", coke, heroin and PCP?". MichaelConnelly.com. Retrieved February 29,...
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Times, The Daily Mail, and many others. Fellow novelists Stephen King, MichaelConnelly, James Ellroy, and Harlan Coben also raved about The Cartel, naming...
Lincoln Lawyer, based on the novel of the same name and written by MichaelConnelly. Sampson was an occasional co-host of Australian radio show Get This...
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