John Lawton (author)

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name = John Lawton


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birthdate = 1949
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = English
period = 1995-present
genre = Espionage, Crime
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notableworks = Novel: "Black Out" (1995), Novel: "Second Violin" (2007)
influences = T.C. Boyle, Chuck Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, Gore Vidal
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John Lawton is an English author of crime/espionage stories primarily set in England during World War II.

Biography

Born in 1949 Lawton began his career as a documentary producer for Channel 4 until retiring to write fiction full time.

Many of the Biography pages within Lawton's books have a decidedly tongue-in-cheek bent with hobbies listed as the cultivation of the onion and obscure varieties of potato, growing leeks. His residence on the Penguin Books website is listed as high up in the English hills, but spends part of the year in New York City and pretends it is balance.

Bibliography

Frederick Troy Novels

The novels within the Frederick Troy series revolve around the life of the resilient protagonist Frederick (Freddie) Troy, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a detective for Scotland Yard. The rights to this character where purchased by Columbia Pictures.

* Black Out (1995)
* Old Flames (1996)
* A Little White Death (1998)
* Riptide (2001) - Published in the United States as Bluffing Mr. Churchill
* Blue Rondo (2005) - Published in the United States as Flesh Wounds
* Second Violin (2007)

Other Novels

* Sweet Sunday (2002)

References

* The spy novelist whose spies are crooks [http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/01/29/john.lawton/ CNN.com]

External links

* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/john-lawton/ Profile at Fantastic Fiction]
* [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/5361-0/author-John-Lawton.htm Profile at Orion Books]
* [http://itsacrime.typepad.com/its_a_crime_or_a_mystery/2005/09/the_books_of_jo.html The Books of John Lawton – The “Troy” series] at IT'S A CRIME! (OR A MYSTERY...)
* [http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com/2004/08/john-lawton-and-english-past.html John Lawton and the English past] at Grumpy Old Bookman