Gregg Hurwitz

Gregg Andrew Hurwitz is an American author of crime novels and comic books.

Personal life and education

Hurwitz grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area^[1] and graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. While completing a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University (1995) and a master's from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy (1996), he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for pole vaulting and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox Fellow.^[2]

Hurwitz lives in Los Angeles.^[1] He is married and has two daughters.^[3]

Career

Hurwitz is the author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, The Crime Writer, Trust No One, Don't Look Back, and Orphan X. His books have been shortlisted for best novel of the year by the International Thriller Writers, nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, chosen as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, honored as Book Sense Picks, and translated into 28 languages.

He wrote the original screenplay for the film The Book of Henry (2017), directed by Collin Trevorrow for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and filmed in New York. The cast includes Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace and Dean Norris.^[4]

He has written screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Studios, MGM, and ESPN, as well as developed television series for Warner Bros. and Lakeshore Entertainment. His 2016 novel, Orphan X, was picked up by Warner Bros. with Bradley Cooper on to direct and possibly star in the film.^[5] Hurwitz will write the screenplay adaptation. Hurwitz has also written Wolverine, The Punisher, and Foolkiller for Marvel Comics,^[6] and published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare. He has taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA and Harvard. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has snuck onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swam with sharks in the Galápagos Islands, and gone undercover into mind-control cults. He has written and produced season two of the TV show V.

He became the writer of Batman: The Dark Knight for DC Comics in 2012.^[7][8]

Bibliography

Novels

Orphan X Thrillers

1. Orphan X 368 pages, January 2016, ISBN 978-1250067845
2. The Nowhere Man 368 pages, January 2017, ISBN 978-1250067852
3. Hellbent, January 2018 (anticipated), ISBN 9781250119179

"Buy a Bullet", 16 pages, October 2016, ISBN 9781250141286

The Rains Brothers

1. The Rains 352 pages, October 2016, ISBN 9780765382672
2. Last Chance 384 pages, October 2017, ISBN 9780765382696

Tim Rackley

1. The Kill Clause 576 pages, August 2004, ISBN 978-0060530396
2. The Program 464 pages, August 2005, ISBN 978-0060530419
3. Troubleshooter 400 pages, July 2006, ISBN 978-0060731458
4. Last Shot 496 pages, July 2007, ISBN 978-0060731472

Stand-Alones

• The Tower 384 pages, April 1999, ISBN 978-0684851914
• Minutes to Burn 432 pages, July 2001, ISBN 978-0060188863
• Do No Harm 400 pages, July 2002, ISBN 978-0060008864
• The Crime Writer (also known as I See You) 320 pages, June 2008, ISBN 978-0143113447
• Trust No One (UK title as We Know) 448 pages, June 2010, ISBN 978-0312389567
• They're Watching (UK title as Or She Dies) 528 pages, April 2011, ISBN 978-0312544171
• You're Next 560 pages, March 2012, ISBN 978-1250005892
• The Survivor 512 pages, July 2012, ISBN 978-1250029430
• Tell No Lies 384 pages, August 2013, ISBN 978-0312625528
• Don't Look Back 400 pages, August 2014, ISBN 978-0-312-62683-9

Comic books

Television

• V (2011)

References

External links

• Official website
• MacMillan author page
• Gregg Hurwitz at the Comic Book DB
• Gregg Hurwitz at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
• Gregg Hurwitz at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators