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- Invisible.<\/a><\/li>\n
- Truth or Die. (Trevor Mann)<\/a>
The Women’s Murder Club<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
- #9 – The 9th Judgement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Alex Cross Series<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- #18 – Kill Alex Cross<\/a><\/li>\n
- #20 – Alex Cross, Run<\/a><\/li>\n
- #21 – Cross My Heart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Private Series<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- #10 – Private Paris<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
NYPD Red Series<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- #1 – NYPD Red No. 1<\/a><\/li>\n
- #1 – NYPD Red No. 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Woman of God<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- #1 – Woman of God<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nFrom Goodreads:<\/strong><\/p>\n
James Patterson has created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today with his Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women\u2019s Murder Club, Private, NYPD Red, Daniel X, Maximum Ride, and Middle School series. As of January 2016, he has sold over 350 million books worldwide and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers. In addition to writing the thriller novels for which he is best known, he also writes children\u2019s, middle-grade, and young-adult fiction and is also the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on the New York Times adult and children\u2019s bestsellers lists.<\/i><\/p>\n
The son of an insurance salesman and a schoolteacher, Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York, and began casually writing at the age of nineteen. In 1969, he graduated from Manhattan College. He was given a full ride to Vanderbilt University\u2019s graduate program in English but dropped out after a year, knowing that he wouldn\u2019t be able to continue reading and writing for pleasure if he became a college professor.<\/p>\n
Instead, he moved to New York to become a junior copywriter for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, eventually becoming CEO of its North American company.<\/p>\n
In 1976, while still working for J. Walter Thompson, Patterson published his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, with Little, Brown and Company. After being turned down by thirty-one publishers, it won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Patterson\u2019s 1993 novel, Along Came a Spider, his first novel to feature Alex Cross, was also his first New York Times bestseller in fiction.<\/p>\n
In 2001, Morgan Freeman starred as Alex Cross in a film adaptation of Along Came a Spider, and Tyler Perry also played the character in the 2012 film Alex Cross. A film adaptation of Patterson\u2019s middle-grade novel Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life will be released in theatres in October 2016.<\/p>\n
For his initiatives to help kids become passionate readers and for his philanthropic efforts, Patterson was awarded the National Book Foundation\u2019s 2015 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.<\/p>\n
James Patterson has donated more than one million books to students, emphasising some of the most under-resourced schools and youth programs in the country. In 2015, Patterson donated $1.75 million to school libraries throughout the United States, and $250,000 in holiday bonuses to individual bookstore employees. He also gave $1 million to independent bookstores in 2014.<\/p>\n
Patterson has recently donated over $26 million to his and his wife\u2019s alma maters\u2014the University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Manhattan College\u2014and he has established over four hundred Teacher Education Scholarships at twenty-four colleges and universities throughout the country. Patterson has also donated over 650,000 books to U.S. soldiers at home and overseas.<\/p>\n
In May 2015, Patterson launched a new children\u2019s book imprint at Little, Brown, called JIMMY Patterson, that is unwaveringly focused on one goal: turning kids into lifelong readers. This imprint also provides resources, strategies, and programs to serve teachers, parents, librarians, and booksellers. Patterson will be investing proceeds from the sales of JIMMY Patterson Books in pro-reading initiatives.<\/p>\n
Patterson has also founded ReadKiddoRead.com, a website designed to help parents, teachers, and librarians ignite a new generation\u2019s excitement for reading.<\/p>\n
On the internets!<\/p>\n
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- James Patterson’s Webpage<\/a><\/li>\n
- James Patterson’s UK Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- James Patterson’s Webpage<\/a><\/li>\n
- #1 – NYPD Red No. 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- #1 – NYPD Red No. 1<\/a><\/li>\n
- #20 – Alex Cross, Run<\/a><\/li>\n
- Truth or Die. (Trevor Mann)<\/a>