Occupation Writer Role Novelist Name Adrian McKinty | Period 1990s- Nationality British/Irish Spouse Leah McKinty | |
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Genre Crime fiction, young adult fiction Literary movement Celtic New Wave in Crime Fiction Notable works The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy series) Books The Cold Cold Ground, Dead I Well May Be, The dead yard, Falling Glass, Fifty grand Similar People | ||
Adrian mckinty talks about his troubles trilogy and his favorite way to have a draft of guinness
Adrian McKinty is an Edgar Award winning Irish crime novelist who is also a two time winner of the Ned Kelly Award and has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the Anthony Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, living first in Harlem, New York, then moving in 2000 to Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. Since 2008 McKinty has lived in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.
Contents
- Adrian mckinty talks about his troubles trilogy and his favorite way to have a draft of guinness
- Adrian mckinty shows how to make a vodka gimlet the sean duffy way
- Writing career
- Awards
- Journalism
- Michael Forsythe Trilogy
- The Lighthouse Trilogy
- The Sean Duffy series
- Standalone Books
- As Editor
- Personal life
- Trivia
- References
Adrian mckinty shows how to make a vodka gimlet the sean duffy way
Writing career
McKinty has written eighteen books twelve of which form two trilogies and a sextet. He is primarily known as a writer of genre fiction: crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction. McKinty writes in a stylised prose manner with echoes of James Ellroy, and Elmore Leonard. Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post has praised McKinty as a leading light in the new wave of Irish crime novelists whose most celebrated members are Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and John Connolly. McKinty has been criticised for the explicit use of violence in his novels; however, John O'Connor reviewing McKinty's "Fifty Grand" in The Guardian called him a "master of modern noir, up there with the likes of Dennis Lehane." McKinty uses the classic noir tropes of revenge and betrayal to explore his characters' existential quest for meaning in an often bleak but lyrically intense universe. Steve Dougherty writing in The Wall Street Journal praised McKinty's use of irony and humour as a counterpoint to the violent world inhabited by McKinty's Sean Duffy character.
Awards
Journalism
McKinty has written articles and book reviews for The Washington Post, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Australian,The Sydney Morning Herald, The Melbourne Age, and Harpers Magazine.
Michael Forsythe Trilogy
- Dead I Well May Be (Scribner) 2003
- The Dead Yard (Scribner) 2006
- The Bloomsday Dead (Scribner) 2007
The Lighthouse Trilogy
- The Lighthouse Land (Abrams) 2006
- The Lighthouse War (Abrams) 2007
- The Lighthouse Keepers (Abrams) 2008
The Sean Duffy series
- The Cold Cold Ground (Serpents Tail) 2012 ISBN 978-1616147167
- I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Serpents Tail) 2013 ISBN 978-1616147877
- In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Serpents Tail) 2014 ISBN 978-1616148775
- Gun Street Girl (Serpents Tail) 2015 ISBN 978-1633880009
- Rain Dogs (Serpents Tail) 2016 ISBN 978-1633881303
- Police at the Station and They Dont Look Friendly (Serpents Tail) 2017 ISBN 1781256926
Standalone Books
- Orange Rhymes With Everything (Morrow) 1998
- Hidden River (Scribner) 2005
- Fifty Grand (Holt) 2009
- Falling Glass (Serpents Tail) 2011
- Deviant (Abrams) 2011
- The Sun Is God (Serpents Tail in the UK/Seventh Street Books in the US) 2014
As Editor
- Belfast Noir (Akashic) 2014 with Stuart Neville
Personal life
After graduating from Oxford University in 1993 McKinty moved to New York City and found work as a security guard, barman, bookstore clerk, rugby coach, door to door salesman and librarian. In 2000 he relocated to Denver, Colorado to become a high school English teacher. In 2008 he and his family moved to St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.