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Michael Connelly
Michael Joseph Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, including 10 with both those characters. Connelly is the bestselling author of 42 novels and one work of non-fiction, with over 74 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into 40 la…
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culture · American author (born 1956) · writer · journalist · crime fiction writer · chronicler · screenwriter · actor · film producer · novelist · television producer · also Michael Connelly, Connelly
Born 21 July 1956 · Q313193
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Ballard premiered on Prime Video starring Maggie Q as Renée Ballard, leading a team of volunteers on the LAPD cold case unit
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2024· 1 entry
Connelly hosted and wrote The Wonderland Massacre & The Secret History of Hollywood, a documentary series for MGM+ that adapted his 2021 true crime podcast about the Wonderland murders
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2023· 1 entry
And a third season based on The Gods of Guilt was released in 2024
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2022· 1 entry
A&E Studios developed Connelly's second novel in The Lincoln Lawyer series, The Brass Verdict, into a 10-episode series simply titled The Lincoln Lawyer (TV series)
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Cartier Diamond Dagger (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Connelly's first novel featuring Detective Renée Ballard, The Late Show, was published
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for The Fifth Witness (2012).
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The Black Box won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000
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2011· 1 entry
With Matthew McConaughey playing defense lawyer Michael "Mickey" Haller
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Anthony Award for Best Novel for The Brass Verdict (2009).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Shamus Award for The Lincoln Lawyer (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Was a sequel to The Poet but featured Bosch instead of McEvoy
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded Anthony Award for Best Novel for City of Bones (2003).
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Awarded Barry Award for Best Novel for City of Bones (2003).
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Another Bosch novel, Lost Light, was published
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2002· 2 entries
Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1997 novel, Blood Work
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Directed by Clint Eastwood, who also played McCaleb, an agent with a transplanted heart in pursuit of his donor's murderer
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2001· 2 entries
A Darkness More Than Night was published, in which Connelly united Bosch and McCaleb to solve a crime together, before releasing two books in 2002
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Connelly left California for Tampa Bay, Florida, together with his wife and daughter, so that both he and his wife could be closer to their families
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for Angels Flight (2000).
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Awarded German Crime Fiction Award (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Anthony Award for Best Novel for Blood Work (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Barry Award for Best Novel for Trunk Music (1998).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Anthony Award for Best Novel for The Poet (1997).
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Connelly returned to Bosch in Trunk Music before writing another book, Blood Work (1997), about a different character, FBI agent Terry McCaleb
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1996· 4 entries
Connelly wrote The Poet, his first book not to feature Bosch
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“Spędzili całą noc na prowadzonej szeptem rozmowie, tuląc się do siebie i całując, lecz nie kochali się.”
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“Możesz pójść w odstawkę lub uciec, skryć się przed światem. Możesz uwierzyć, że jesteś kompletnym outsiderem. Niewinność dziecka sprowadzi cię jednak z powrotem i da ci tarczę radości, byś mógł się osłonić.”
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“W życiu i w naturze jest tak samo: ciemność zawsze czeka.”
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1994· 1 entry
When President Bill Clinton came out of a bookstore carrying a copy of The Concrete Blonde in front of the waiting cameras
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for The Black Echo (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
And won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best first Novel
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1990).
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1987· 1 entry
With his wife, Linda McCaleb, whom he had met while in college and married in April 1984
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1986· 1 entry
And two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of the 1985 Delta Flight 191 plane crash, which story earned Connelly a place as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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1980· 1 entry
Connelly got a job as a crime beat writer at the Daytona Beach News-Journal, where he worked for almost two years until he went to the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel in 1981
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-07-21.
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