Bill Granger
An award-winning novelist and reporter, Bill Granger began his literary career in 1979 with <I>Code Name November </I>(first published as <I>The November Man</I>), the book that became an international sensation and introduced the cool American spy who later gave rise to a whole series. His second novel, <I>Public Murders</I>, a Chicago police procedural, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1981.<br>In all, Bill Granger published twenty-two novels, including thirteen in the November Man series, and three nonfiction books. His books have been translated into ten languages. He also wrote for the <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, the <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I>, <I>Newsday</I>, <I>Time</I>, and <I>The New Republic</I>, contributing articles about crime, cops, politics, and covering such events as the race riots of the late 1960's and the 1968 Democratic Convention. Bill Granger passed away in 2012.
