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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