Jeffery Deaver

Fast Facts:

• Deaver began writing when he was eleven and has been writing full time in 1990
  
  
• Deaver's novels have been translated into 25 languages
  
  
• Deaver has won 3 Ellery Queen Reader's Awards for Best Short Story of the Year and has been nominated for 5 Edgar Awards
  
  
• Deaver is a musician and has written and performed his material
  
  
• Deaver revises his manuscripts at least 20 or 30 times before his publishers see a version
  
  
• Deaver's novel A MAIDEN'S GRAVE was made into an HBO movie entitled Dead Silence
  
  
• As "William Jefferies," Deaver wrote SHALLOW GRAVES, BLOODY RIVER BLUES, and HELL'S KITCHEN
  
  
• Among Deaver's favorite books are the thrillers TAILOR OF PANAMA by John LeCarre and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS by Thomas Harris
  
  
• Deaver's sister Julie Reece Deaver's writes fiction for young adults
  
  

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