John Katzenbach

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John Katzenbach
File:John Katzenbach 2.jpg John Katzenbach in the Buenos Aires International Book Fair
Born	(1950-06-23) June 23, 1950 Princeton, New Jersey, US
Occupation	Writer, screenwriter
Alma mater	Sidwell Friends School
Period	1987–present
Genre	Suspense
Spouse	Madeleine Blais
Website
johnkatzenbach.com

John Katzenbach (born June 23, 1950) is a United States author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, and a featured writer for the Herald's Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais and they live in western Massachusetts.

He left the newspaper industry to write psychological thrillers. His first, 1982's In the Heat of the Summer, was nominated for an Edgar Award and then became the movie The Mean Season, filmed partially in The Herald's newsroom and starring Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway.

Two more of his books were made into films in the United States, 1995's Just Cause and 2002's Hart's War. A fourth book, The Wrong Man was recently made (2011) into the French TV film Faux Coupable.

Bibliography

• In the Heat of the Summer (1982; Edgar Award nominee for best first novel)
• First Born (1984)
• The Traveler (1987)
• Day of Reckoning (1989)
• Just Cause (1992)
• The Shadow Man (1995; Edgar nominee)
• State of Mind (1997)
• Hart's War (1999)
• The Analyst (2002)
• The Madman's Tale (2004)
• The Wrong Man (2007)
• What Comes Next (2010)
• Red 1-2-3 (2012)
• The Dead Student (2014)

Filmography

• The Mean Season (1985) (based on In the Heat of the Summer)
• Just Cause (1995)
• Hart's War (2002)

External links

• Official site