Lee Child
British thriller writer
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| 2025 | Lee Child planned to publish 'Exit Strategy', the 30th Jack Reacher novel |
| 2024 | Published 'Safe Enough', a collection of twenty short stories. |
| 2024 | Lee Child planned to publish 'In Too Deep', the 29th Jack Reacher novel in 3rd person perspective |
| 2023 | Lee Child awarded Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from Coventry University in England |
| 2023 | Lee Child published 'The Secret', maintaining the 3rd person narrative style |
| 2022 | Lee Child appeared in the last episode of the Amazon Prime series Reacher (starring Alan Ritchson) as a man walking out of a diner and saying 'Excuse me' while passing the main character. |
| 2022 | Lee Child published 'No Plan B', continuing the Jack Reacher series in 3rd person perspective |
| 2021 | Lee Child published 'Better Off Dead', returning to a first-person narrative in the Jack Reacher series |
| 2020 | Joined the Booker Prize judging panel alongside chair Margaret Busby, Sameer Rahim, Lemn Sissay, and Emily Wilson. |
| 2020 | Published short stories 'Dying for a Cigarette' in The Nicotine Chronicles and 'Normal in Every Way' in Deadly Anniversaries |
| 2020 | Lee Child published 'The Sentinel', the first Jack Reacher novel co-authored with his brother Andrew Child |
| January 2020 | Announced his retirement from writing the Jack Reacher series and plans to hand over the series to his brother Andrew Grant, who will continue writing under the surname Child. |
| 2019 | Lee Child published 'Blue Moon', maintaining the 3rd person narrative approach |
| 2019 | Published non-fiction work 'The Hero' through London: TLS Books. |
| 2019 | Collaborated with musicians Jennifer and Scott Smith from Naked Blue to create an album about Jack Reacher, contributing vocals to the track 'Reacher Said Nothing'. |
| 2019 | Lee Child is named Author of the Year in the British Book Awards, receiving a lifetime achievement recognition |
| 2019 | Collaborated with Karin Slaughter on 'Cleaning the Gold', a crossover with the Will Trent series. Also published 'Smile', collected in 'Invisible Blood'. |
| 2019 | Announced plans to curate a new TV show called Lee Child: True Crime, which will dramatize real-life crime stories from around the world. |
| June 2019 | Lee Child was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his contributions to literature. |
| 2018 | Released 'The Fourth Man', which was included in the Australian paperback of 'Past Tense'. |
| 2018 | Lee Child published 'Past Tense', the 23rd Jack Reacher novel in 3rd person perspective |
| 2018 | Served as the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, part of the Harrogate International Festivals. |
| April 2018 | Published short story 'Shorty and the Briefcase' in Ten Year Stretch |
| January 2018 | Published short story 'New Blank Document' in It Occurs to Me that I am America |
| 2017 | Lee Child published 'The Midnight Line', continuing the Jack Reacher series in 3rd person perspective |
| 2017 | Lee Child is awarded the ThrillerMaster lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers association |
| 2017 | Published 'No Middle Name', a collection of two novellas and ten short stories from the Jack Reacher series. |
| 2017 | Collaborated with Kathy Reichs on 'Faking a Murderer', a crossover with the Temperance Brennan series. Also published 'Too Much Time' novella and 'The Christmas Scorpion' electronic short story. |
| 2017 | Lee Child receives the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction award at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival, Harrogate International Festivals |
| December 2017 | Published short story 'Pierre, Lucien & Me' in Alive in Shape and Color |
| March 2017 | Contributed Chapter 6: 'The Fortune Cookie' to the novel Anatomy of Innocence |
| 2016 | Lee Child made a cameo appearance as an airport ticket agent in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, a film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Tom Cruise, based on his novel Never Go Back. |
| 2016 | Lee Child published 'Night School', maintaining the 3rd person narrative style |
| December 2016 | Published short story 'The Truth About What Happened' in In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper |
| 2015 | Published 'Small Wars', an electronic short story, and 'The Picture of the Lonely Diner'. |
| 2015 | Lee Child published 'Make Me', the 20th Jack Reacher novel in 3rd person perspective |
| 2014 | Lee Child published 'Personal', returning to a first-person narrative for the Jack Reacher novel |
| 2014 | Lee Child receives the RBA Prize for Crime Writing, valued at €125,000, for his novel 'Personal' |
| 2014 | Released multiple short works including 'Not a Drill' and collaborated with Joseph Finder on 'Good and Valuable Consideration', a crossover with the Nick Heller series. |
| November 2014 | Published short story 'Wet with Rain' in Belfast Noir |
| 2013 | Publicly rejected claims reported in the Daily Mail that he wrote while under the influence of marijuana. |
| 2013 | Lee Child published 'Never Go Back', continuing the Jack Reacher series in 3rd person perspective |
| 2013 | Published 'High Heat', an electronic novella. |
| 2013 | Lee Child receives the Cartier Diamond Dagger, a lifetime achievement award from the Crime Writers' Association |
| July 2013 | Published short story 'My First Drug Trial' in The Marijuana Chronicles |
| 2012 | Published short stories 'I Heard a Romantic Story' in Love is Murder and 'The Hollywood I Remember' in Vengeance |
| 2012 | Released 'Deep Down', an electronic short story, and 'Everyone Talks' published in Esquire's June/July US edition. |
| 2012 | Lee Child published 'A Wanted Man', the 17th Jack Reacher novel in 3rd person perspective |
| 2012 | Lee Child made a cameo appearance as a police desk sergeant in the film Jack Reacher, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, which was based on his novel One Shot. |
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