BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES GRADY

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James Grady’s first novel, Six Days Of The Condor, became the classic Robert Redford movie Three Days Of The Condor and the Max Irons TV series Condor. Born and raised in Shelby, Montana, Grady was a research analyst for Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention, a staffer for a Montana U.S. senator and received a 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana.

Grady has received Italy’s Raymond Chandler Medal, France’s Grand Prix Du Roman Noir and Japan’s Baka-Misu literature award, two Regardie’s magazine fiction awards, and has been a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award finalist. He’s published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, edited fiction anthologies—including Montana Noir—been a muckraking journalist and a Hollywood scriptwriter for Paramount, CBS, and HBO. His essays appeared in the Washington Post, the Great Falls Tribune (Montana), the Daily Beast, the Missoulian (Montana), Slate, the Shelby Promoter (Montana), PoliticsDaily.com, Spytalk.co, USA Today, and LitHub.

In 2008, London’s Daily Telegraph named Grady as one of “50 crime writers to read before you die.”

In 2015, the Washington Post compared his prose to George Orwell and Bob Dylan.