Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty is an Irish novelist. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, living first in Harlem, New York and from 2001 onwards Denver, Colorado where he began writing fiction. [http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2006/Mar/10/irish-eyes-unsmiling/]

Writing Career

McKinty has written nine books, six of which form two trilogies. [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/adrian-mckinty/] He is primarily known as a writer of genre fiction: crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction. McKinty writes in a stylized prose manner with echoes of James Ellroy, and Elmore Leonard. "Publishers Weekly" has called him "one of his generation's leading talents" [http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Yard-Novel-Adrian-McKinty/dp/0743499484] and Patrick Anderson of the "Washington Post" has praised McKinty as a leading light in the "new wave" of Irish crime novelists whose most celebrated members are Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and John Connolly. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501066.html]

Awards

*His debut crime novel "Dead I Well May Be" was nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger Award 2004. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWA_Ian_Fleming_Steel_Dagger]
*His debut young adult novel "The Lighthouse Land" was shortlisted for the 2008 Young Hoosier Award [http://indiana.statebookawards.com/html/yhba_nominees__2008-2009_6-8_m.html] and the 2008 Beehive Award [http://www.clau.org/0708nomslink.html]
*"The Dead Yard" was selected by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the 12 Best Novels of 2006 [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6388182.html] and won the 2007 Audie Award for best thriller/suspense. [http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/2007audies.html ]

Michael Forsythe Trilogy

#"Dead I Well May Be" (Scribner) 2003
#"The Dead Yard" (Scribner) 2006
#"The Bloomsday Dead" (Scribner) 2007

Lighthouse Trilogy

#"The Lighthouse Land" (Abrams) 2006
#"The Lighthouse War" (Abrams) 2007
#"The Lighthouse Keepers" (Abrams) 2008

Individual novels

#"Orange Rhymes With Everything" (Morrow) 1998
#"Hidden River" (Scribner) 2005
#"Fifty Grand" (Holt) "forthcoming" 2009

Personal Life

Having apparently given up on a legal career in England, McKinty found work in America as a security guard, barman, bookstore clerk, high school teacher, rugby coach, librarian and door to door salesman before becoming a full time writer. He is married with two children and lives in Denver, Colorado. [http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2006/Mar/10/irish-eyes-unsmiling/]

Trivia

In 2008 Adrian McKinty alleged that he had been offered books for sale from Ernest Hemingway's Cuban residence, [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4105740.ece?token=null&offset=0 ] the Finca Vigia.

Notes and references

External Links

* http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=2&pid=367379
* http://www.serpentstail.com/author_bio?id=10466
* http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com