Nine Dragons

麦可‧康纳利

美国享誉全球的知名作家麦可‧康纳利是经年蝉连畅销书榜的作家，获奖无数，曾在洛杉矶时报担任犯罪新闻记者的他，以其独到的观察与笔锋写出冷硬派的犯罪小说，今仍创作不辍，作品风行全球、翻译成十多种语言，《血型拼图》于2001年被改拍成电影。麦可‧康纳利1957年生于东岸费城附近，1980从佛罗里达大学毕业，主修是新闻学，副修文学创作，之后曾于《洛杉矶时报》主跑犯罪新闻。洛杉矶工作三年后，康纳利决定开始着手创作，更从新闻记者摇身变为推理大师。他的第一部小说《黑暗回声》（The Black Echo）发表于1992年，故事根据洛杉矶一宗罪案改写而成，不但赢得美国侦探小说最高荣誉爱伦坡大奖（Edgar Awards），更奠定其在文坛的地位，此外也带出一系列以探长哈瑞．鲍许（Harry Bosch）为主角的作品，包括著名的《黑冰》，《水泥中的金发女子》和《最后的美洲狼》。除了鲍许探长系列之外，康纳利亦写了多部单本的侦探作品，如《诗人》、《血型拼图》等，作品陆续获美国安东尼大奖、尼罗．吴尔夫奖、麦克维提奖等。他曾任美国推理作家协会2003、2004年主席，现居佛州。

Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing ' a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.

After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written.

After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. The novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles , was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with 18 more novels. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards.

Michael lives with his family in Florida.