Occupation Writer, screenwriter Name John Katzenbach Role Author | Period 1987–present Genre Suspense | |
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Education Sidwell Friends School (1968) Movies Hart's War, Just Cause, The Mean Season Parents Nicholas Katzenbach, Lydia King Phelps Stokes Books The analyst, What Comes Next, The Wrong Man, The Madman's Tale, La historia del loco Similar People Nicholas Katzenbach, Gregory Hoblit, David Foster, Arne Glimcher, Phillip Borsos Profiles | ||
Alma mater Sidwell Friends School |
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John Katzenbach (born June 23, 1950) is a United States author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach 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.
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He left the newspaper industry to write psychological thrillers. His first, 1982's In the Heat of the Summer, was nominated for an Edgar Award and then 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 with Sean Connery and 2002's Hart's War with Bruce Willis. A fourth book, The Wrong Man, was made in 2011 as the French TV film Faux Coupable.

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