Greg Rucka Biography

Greg Rucka was born in San Francisco and raised on the Monterey Peninsula of California in an area known to the locals as Steinbeck Country. He first discovered comics at the Nob Hill Market in Salinas California where at age 5 he first saw digest-sized black and white reprints of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's work on The Incredible Hulk which he convinced his mother to buy. He began writing at a young age and at age 10 he won a county-wide short story contest. He graduated from Vassar College with an A.B. in English. He then enrolled in the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing program graduating with an M.F.A.
Before becoming a professional fiction writer he worked in a number of other occupations including house painting restaurant work emergency medical technician security guard technical writer and fight choreographer.
Rucka's writing career began with the Atticus Kodiak series. Kodiak is a bodyguard whose jobs are rarely as uncomplicated as they at first appear. The series to date consists of: Keeper Finder Smoker Shooting at Midnight Critical Space Patriot Acts and Walking Dead. These works garnered Rucka much critical acclaim and comparisons to the elite writers of crime/suspense fiction. The Atticus novels are notable for their realism and attention to detail which are partly a product of Rucka's fight training and experience as an EMT. He has written three non-Atticus books: Fistful of Rain A Gentleman's Game and Private Wars; the latter two are tie-ins to his comic book series Queen & Country.

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