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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Alex Grecian

Alma mater
  
University of Kansas



Born
  
Alexander Douglas Grecian August 6, 1969 (age 55) Kansas, United States (
1969-08-06
)

Occupation
  
Novelist, short story writer, comic book writer

Genre
  
Mystery fiction, Historical fiction

Books
  
The Yard, The Devil's Workshop, The Black Country, The Harvest Man, The Blue Girl: A Short Stor

Alex Grecian's THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP


Alex Grecian (; born Alexander Douglas Grecian on August 6, 1969) is an American author of short fiction, novels, comic books, and graphic novels. His notable works include the comic book series Proof and the novels in the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series: The Yard, The Black Country, The Devil's Workshop, The Harvest Man, Lost and Gone Forever, and The Blue Girl. He has been nominated for the The Strand Award for Best Debut Novel for The Yard, the The Dilys Award for The Black Country, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel for The Yard. He was also the recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award from the State Library of Kansas for The Yard, The Black Country, and The Devil's Workshop.

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Career

Famous Author

Literary influences

As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the works of C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. He later became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Graham Greene, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, and John D. MacDonald. Other influences include John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, and Stephen King.

Comics and graphic novels

Grecian's first comic book work, released in 2006, was a collaboration with Canadian comic book artist and illustrator Riley Rossmo on Seven Sons, a graphic novel based on the anonymously written Chinese folktale Ten Brothers known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644). In 2007, he started work on Proof, also with Riley Rossmo. NPR named this series one of the best books of 2009. Grecian and Rossmo started on their third project together, Rasputin, in the fall of 2014. This series is a work of fiction based on the life of Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early nineteen hundreds.

In 2013, with fellow creators B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun, and Seth Peck, Grecian developed the anthology Bad Karma using a Kickstarter campaign. Bad Karma is a hardcover comics, prose and art collection featuring five separate, inter-related creator-owned concepts.

Novels

In May 2012 Grecian's debut novel The Yard was released by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This novel is the first in the Murder Squad Series. The second novel in the series, The Black Country was released in May 2013, then the third, The Devil's Workshop in May 2014, the fourth, The Harvest Man in May 2015, and the fifth, Lost and Gone Forever in May 2016. The e-book The Blue Girl is also a story of the Murder Squad and was released in June 2013.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • 2012 The New York Times Best Seller list for The Yard
  • 2013 Barry Award (for crime novels) nomination for Best First Novel for The Yard
  • 2013 Strand Magazine’s Critic's Award nomination for Best Debut Novel for The Yard
  • 2013 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Yard
  • 2014 Dilys Award nomination for Mystery Title of the Year for The Black Country
  • 2014 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Black Country
  • 2015 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Devil's Workshop
  • References

    Alex Grecian Wikipedia


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