Richard North Patterson

Richard North Patterson ( born February 22, 1947 in Berkeley ) is an American writer and lawyer.

Life

Patterson studied at Ohio Wesleyan University, where in 1968 his Bachelor degree acquired. In 1971 he received his doctorate at Case Western Reserve University, obtained a license to practice law in the State of Ohio and worked for the Attorney General. From 1973 he worked for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 1978, he went to San Francisco and worked as a partner in a law firm. In the meantime visited Patterson, indicating a literary model Ross Macdonald, a course in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and wrote his first novel, which was accepted for publication by the publisher WW Norton.

From 1983 he devoted himself entirely to writing for two years, but took after the initial failure of his fourth novel, private screening, which reached a hardcover edition of only 5,000 copies, some back to work as a lawyer on. In 1993 he made ​​a comeback with the Roman Degree of Guilt, whose first edition was printed in 250,000 copies, awarded the Grand prix de littérature policière and was filmed in 1995 for the NBC television network. However, after two Patterson that justice thriller at that time were in fashion, among other things, by the success of John Grisham. In his next works Patterson various domestic and foreign policy issues, as the firearms abuse in Balance of Power, the death penalty in Conviction, the Middle East conflict in Exile, the presidential elections in The Race and human rights violations devoted to the oil industry in Africa in which the fate of Ken Saro- Wiwa inspired novel Eclipse.

Patterson is married and has five children. He divides his time between San Francisco and on Martha 's Vineyard.

Awards

Works

  • The Lasko Tangent (1979, dt The seal of silence )
  • The Outside Man ( 1981)
  • Escape The Night (1983 )
  • Private Screening (1985, dt Convicted )
  • Degree of Guilt (1993, dt The measure of guilt )
  • The Final Judgment ( 1995, dt In the last instance )
  • Eyes of a Child (1995, dt closed doors)
  • Silent Witness ( 1997, dt days of innocence )
  • No Safe Place (1998, dt The candidate )
  • Dark Lady (1999, dt Night Black)
  • Protect and Defend (2000, dt A Few Good Men )
  • Balance of Power (2003, dt In the circle of power )
  • Conviction (2005)
  • Exile (2007)
  • The Race (2007)
  • Eclipse (2009)
  • The Spire (2009)
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