Craig Johnson (author)

Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson in 2011
Born	January 16, 1961 (1961-01-16) (age 50) Huntington, West Virginia
Occupation	Novelist, Playwright
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genres	Mystery, Crime fiction, Detective, Western
Notable work(s)	The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Another Man's Moccasins, The Dark Horse, Junkyard Dogs, Hell Is Empty
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Craig Allen Johnson (born January 16, 1961) is an American novelist and playwright. He has written seven novels. His Sheriff Walt Longmire novels include The Cold Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes Unpunished, Another Man's Moccasins, Junkyard Dogs, and The Dark Horse, which received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, and was named one of Publisher's Weekly's best books of the year (2009). The Cold Dish and The Dark Horse were both Dilys Award finalists, and Death Without Company was named the Wyoming Historical Association's Book of the Year. Another Man's Moccasins received the Western Writer's of America Spur Award for best novel of 2008 as well as the Mountains and Plains award for fiction book of the year. The next Walt Longmire novel, Hell Is Empty, will be released by Viking on June 2, 2011.

A television series based on Johnson's protagonist from the Viking/Penguin novels, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, is in development with A&E. "Longmire" stars Robert Taylor ("The Matrix") as Walt Longmire, the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit. With the help of a young, attractive female cop, Longmire becomes reinvigorated about his job and is committed to run for re-election because he knows what everyone else in his community knows: he's the only man that can get the job done.

"Longmire" also stars Katee Sackhoff as Vic Moretti, one of Walt's deputies. Sackhoff is a veteran of "Battlestar Galactica" and is coming off a recurring role as Detective Frankie Reed on "CSI".

Golden Globe and Emmy Award–winning Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin (The Shephard/Robin Company) are executive producing alongside Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny, who are adapting the novel for the screen. Greg Yaitanes is attached to direct. Shephard and Robin are currently executive producers on The Closer (TNT). Among other projects, they executive produced Nip/Tuck (FX) and Trust Me (TNT), the latter created and produced by Baldwin and Coveny. Yaitanes is an executive producer and Emmy Award-winning director on House (Fox).

Johnson is a board member of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA). He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.

Bibliography (Books occur in published order):

1. The Cold Dish 2004 Wyoming
2. Death Without Company 2006 Wyoming
3. Kindness Goes Unpunished 2007 Wyoming and Philadelphia
4. Another Man’s Moccasins 2008 Wyoming
5. The Dark Horse 2009 Wyoming
6. Junkyard Dogs 2010 Wyoming
7. Hell is Empty 2011 Wyoming

External links

• "Craig Johnson makes crime pay", Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2008
• "Le cow-boy du Wyoming", le Nouvel Observateur, July 16, 2009
• "Television series based on Craig Johnson’s Wyoming sheriff in the works", The Buffalo Bulletin, July 26, 2010
• "With a Little Help from His Friends: The Functions of Diversity in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Series" by Rachel Schaffer, Clues: A Journal of Detection 28.2 (2010)

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Name	Johnson, Craig
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Date of birth	January 16, 1961
Place of birth	Huntington, West Virginia
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