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Novels by Michael Connelly
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"I've heard stories about the subconscious taking over and the characters taking on lives of their own. I don't experience that. I don't even understand that. To me, writing is a craft and I work at it. So when I compose my stories no characters — let alone the main character — do things I don't expect. They do what I tell them — through the writing — to do." ~ Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly Bio
Ace: First off, please forgive me for being late. I was on an all night surveilance keeping tabs on a wayward spouse. You were born in Massachusetts and raised in Washington, D.C. Right?
Connelly: I was born in Philadelphia, but I grew up in Florida. My family moved to Fort Lauderdale when I was eleven, and I didn't leave until I was thirty.
Ace: Whatever... And you were an only child. Right?
Connelly: I have two brothers and three sisters.
Ace: No kidding! All writers, eh?
Connelly: All are in creative endeavours, but I am the only professional writer.
Ace: I never liked school, thought it was a waste of time, and wound up getting kicked out in the 9th grade. Is that, more or less, how it was for you?
Connelly: I did not enjoy school but at least knew the value of it.
Ace: Oh, don't get me wrong, I valued those school days too. I remember one day getting Tina Da Rosa to come into the cloakroom with me...
Connelly: My best and most vivid memory is being told that I would be allowed to graduate despite my poor work.
Ace: Bet that was a relief. So, you decide you want to be a writer and enroll in Princeton.
Connelly: University of Florida...
Ace: If you say so...¹
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