Greg Iles Biography

Greg Iles was born in Germany in 1960 where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. 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 a slave.
Iles wrote his first novel in 1993 a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess which became the first of twelve New York Times bestsellers. His novels have been made into films translated into more than twenty languages and published in more than thirty-five countries worldwide. His new epic trilogy continues the story of Penn Cage protagonist of The Quiet Game Turning Angel and New York Times #1 bestseller The Devil’s Punchbowl.
Iles is a member of the legendary lit-rock group “The Rock Bottom Remainders.” Like bandmate Stephen King Greg returned to the musical stage after recovering from his injuries and joined the band for their final two shows in Los Angeles in 2012. A nonfiction memoir by the band titled Hard Listening was published this past summer. Hard Listening also contains a short story Greg wrote as an homage to King.

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