| Jim Green | |
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| Born | James Green March 12, 1944 Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
| Occupation | Author, headmaster, teacher |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | British |
| Genres | Thriller, Poetry, non-fiction |
| Subjects | English thesaurus |
| Notable work(s) | Bad Catholics, Stealing God, A Wordhunter's Companion |
| Spouse(s) | Pat Brennan (1970-present) |
| Children | Dominic Green (d), Joe Green, James Green |
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James "Jim" Green (born 3 December 1944 in Coventry) is a British writer and broadcaster who turned to writing as a full time profession after a 25 year career in teaching. He has had over 40 titles published in various genres, from educational text books to travel guides to crime novels. His latest publication is called Yesterday's Sins (2010 Luath), the third and final part of a trilogy chronicling the exploits of reformed gangster Jimmy Costello.
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Green was born, raised and attended school in Coventry, Warwickshire. His parents, James and Bridget Green, were both natives of County Durham in the north of England and his family retains a strong link to that area. He was the second of three children, his brothers being Michael (b.1938) and Francis 'Frank', (1948–2001).
Green left school at 16 with no educational qualifications of note and via a variety of short spells in a number of jobs he found himself in teaching by his early 20's. Over the next thirty years he held positions of varying seniority in Warwickshire, Gibraltar, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Shropshire.
By the 1970s Green was a rising primary headteacher and began writing educational books as a personal sideline. A Thesaurus for primary schools A Wordhunter's Companion was his first best-seller and remains in print in several countries to date having been translated into a number of languages. A number of titles in the fields of history, travel, humour and poetry followed achieving varying levels of success. Whilst Green varied his genres of writing, educational titles remained his most frequently published genre until his retirement from teaching due to ill health.
After retiring from teaching in the 1990s Green has been a full time writer and publisher. He wrote and had published a wide variety of publications such as a history of Wales, an anthology of poetry with cartoonist Bill Tidy and Christian guide to London. He recently penned a trilogy of crime thrillers featuring the reformed gangster Jimmy Costello, the third title Yesterday's Sins was published in Autumn 2010. Green is currently working on a number of new projects, including a new novel set in 19th Century America.
Bad Catholics was nominated for The CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger at the 2009 Crime Thriller Awards.[1]
Green is married to wife of 41 years, Pat Green (née Brennan, 1946) and they have had three children; Dominic (1972–1997), James (b.1973) and Joe (b.1981). His wife Pat was born in Grimsby and raised in Nottingham, they met in Coventry whilst both holding junior teaching positions.
Green currently lives in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Green and his family have previously lived in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Telford, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Sheffield, Leicester and Coventry. Their two surviving sons (Dominic died in an avalanche on Mont Blanc in Chamonix in 1997) both live in the UK, Joe in Leicester, James in London.
Green is a keen golfer and fan of snooker and the Tour De France. He is a devotee of the author P G Wodehouse and pre-World War II jazz.
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