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Lee Child
Birth at
29 October 1954
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Lee Child is an English writer from Coventry. Child's father is a civil servant. At the age of four, Lee, along with his parents and brothers, moved to Handsworth Wood for a better education. He attended King Edward’s School before enrolling at the University of Sheffield Law School, despite the fact that the legal profession did not attract him in any way. While studying at university, he began working in the theater. In 1977, Child began to collaborate with the television company Granada Television,
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Lee Child is an English writer from Coventry.
Child's father is a civil servant. At the age of four, Lee, along with his parents and brothers, moved to Handsworth Wood for a better education. He attended King Edward’s School before enrolling at the University of Sheffield Law School, despite the fact that the legal profession did not attract him in any way. While studying at university, he began working in the theater.
In 1977, Child began to collaborate with the television company Granada Television, where he had the opportunity to work over forty thousand air hours, recording a huge number of news, programs, commercials, screensavers and author's projects. During the last years of his television career, Child was a union representative.
Lee was fired from his job in 1995 due to corporate restructuring. In 1997, Child’s debut book, The Death Floor, was published. The book was a huge success, giving rise to a series of literary works, the main character of which was Jack Reacher, formerly a police officer.
In 1998, Child decided to move to the United States. In 2007, with fourteen other writers, Lee wrote the thriller The Chopin Manuscript. Radio program of this audiobook, told by the actor
Alfred Molina It was published on Audible.com.
In June 2008, it was reported that Child was invited to give a lecture series at the University of Sheffield, the lectures began in November of the same year. In 2009, he also became the founder of the Jack Reacher Scholarship for students of this university.
Lee currently lives in New York with his wife Jane. Child has an adult daughter named Ruth.