John Katzenbach

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John Katzenbach

John Katzenbach (born 23 June 1950) is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John 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 grind to write books, racking up 12 novels so far, psychological thrillers that have made him an international success. His first, 1982's bestselling *In the Heat of the Summer, 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 into the soon-to-be-released French 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 (Der Professor, El professor) (2010)

Filmography

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

External links

• Official site