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Greg Iles Biography

Greg Iles has spent most of his life in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of many New York Times bestsellers. His Natchez Burning trilogy continued the story of Penn Cage, the protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Devil's Punchbowl. Iles's novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries. He is a member of the lit-rock group The Rock Bottom Remainders, lives in Natchez with his wife, and his three children.

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Major Works

Greg Iles. Photo by Caroline Hungerford. Used by permission.

  • Mississippi Blood (Volume III of trilogy, April 13, 2017)
  • The Bone Tree (Volume II of trilogy Natchez Burning, April 21, 2015)
  • Natchez Burning (Volume I of trilogy)(2014)
  • The Death Factory: A Penn Cage Novella (2014) (Kindle Single)
  • The Devil’s Punchbowl (Penn Cage novel) (2009)
  • Third Degree (2007)
  • True Evil (2006)
  • Blood Memory (2005)
  • Turning Angel (Penn Cage novel) (2005)
  • Dark Matter (2004)
  • The Footprints of God: A Novel(2003)
  • Sleep No More (2002)
  • Dead Sleep (July 2001)
  • The Quiet Game, (Penn Cage novel) (2000)
  • 24 Hours (2000) (became movie Trapped)
  • Mortal Fear (1997)
  • Black Cross (1995)
  • Spandau Phoenix (1993)

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Biography of Greg Iles

Greg Iles, Oxford, MS. 2002. Photo by Nancy Jacobs

by Bahar Adeli (SHS) (2001) Updated

Greg Iles has gone from being an unknown writer from Natchez, Mississippi, to the writer of many New York Times best-sellers since 1992.  This nationally-acclaimed Mississippi writer not o

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Greg Iles was born in Germany in 1960, where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. His mother was raised on a subsistence farm in Louisiana and began picking cotton at the age of three. Iles spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.  While attending Ole Miss, Greg lived in the cabin where William Faulkner and his brothers listened to countless stories told by “Mammy Callie,” their beloved nanny, who had been born enslaved.

 

Iles wrote his first novel in 1993, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, which became the first of seventeen New York Times bestsellers. Primarily set in the Deep South, his later novels have been made into films, translated into more than twenty languages, and published in more than thirty-five countries worldwide.  His new novel will continue the story of Penn Cage, after the epic trilogy that ended with New York Times #1 bestsellerMississippi Blood. 

Iles is a member of the legendary lit-rock group “

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