John Sandford
Website: http://www.johnsandford.org
Series: Virgil Flowers | Lucas Davenport | Letty Davenport | Kidd
About the Author
John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp, an American author and journalist. Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1986, and was one of four finalists for the prize in 1980. He also was the winner of the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors for 1985.
Camp is the author of forty published novels, all of which have appeared, in one format or another, on the New York Times best-seller lists. He is also the co-author of three young-adult books in the Singular Menace series, with Michele Cook, and co-author of the science-fiction thriller Saturn Run with Ctein. He is the author of two non-fiction books, one on art (The Eye and the Heart: The Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle) and one on plastic surgery (Plastic Surgery: the Kindest Cut).
His books have been translated into most European and Middle Eastern languages, as well as Japanese and Korean. He is the principal financial backer of the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project in the Jordan River Valley of Israel. A major show of the expedition's findings is currently being held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
