诗人

When Michael Connelly was in college, he studied architecture but hated it. One evening, he wandered over to the student union and watched the film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, "The Long Goodbye." Though Connelly had never read Chandler's book before, he fell in love with the movie and went to see it again the next day. Within a week, he had read all of Chandler's works. This was when Connelly knew his dream was to become a crime novelist like Chandler.

Connelly's writing career began as a journalist, and one report that he collaborated on with two other colleagues made it to the finalist list for the Pulitzer Prize. Because of this report, he came to Los Angeles, the stomping ground of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist in Chandler's novels.

Undoubtedly, years of journalism gave Connelly a wealth of details that helped him create the unique and lonely detective Harry Bosch. Bosch embodies many of the characteristics of the detectives that Connelly had encountered over the years. In 1992, "The Black Echo" was published and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Over the following three years, Connelly wrote more novels with Harry Bosch as the main character...

作者简介

上大学的时候迈克尔•康奈利学的是建筑，但是他痛恨这门科目。一天晚上他溜达到大学学生联合会，那儿正在放映根据雷蒙德•钱德勒的同名小说改编的电影《漫长的告别》。这之前，康奈利从来没有读过钱德勒的书，但是他爱上这部电影，于是第二天又去看了一遍，随后在一周之内，他看完了钱德勒所有的作品。直到此时，康奈利终于知道自己的梦想——作一名像钱德勒那样的犯罪小说家。康奈利的写作生涯是以记者的身份开始的，他和其他两位同行合作的一篇报道曾经进入普利策奖终选名单，因为这篇报道，他来到了洛杉矶——雷蒙•钱德勒笔下的菲利普•马洛的地盘。无疑，多年的记者生涯让他储备了足够的细节，这些都有助于他创造那位独特而孤独的警探哈里•博斯。博斯身上集中了康奈利见过的很多警探的影子。一九九二年，《黑色回声》出版，获得当年艾伦•坡奖的最佳处女作奖。接下来的三年中，康奈利以哈里•博斯为主人公又写了《黑冰》、《混凝土里的金发女郎》和《最后的郊狼》。这四部作品为康奈利和博斯积攒了很多读者。然而康奈利的第五部作品着实让读者吃了一惊，因为它与博斯无关，这本《诗人》更为阴冷，但同时它也许是康奈利最好的作品之一。在此之前康奈利小说的精装版的销量一般是一万七千本到三万本，但是《诗人》开机就印了六万本。现在康奈利小说的精装本每部都要卖到四万册。目前，康奈利出版了十七部小说，其中十二部属于“哈里•博斯系列”。除了小说，他还编辑了《2003年美国最佳推理小说选》，并于二〇〇六年出版了纪实报告《犯罪一线》。康奈利的小说是《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首的常客，而且在评论界口碑甚好。除了爱伦•坡奖，他还获得过安东尼奖、夏姆斯奖、马耳他之鹰奖、尼罗•伍尔芙奖、Macavity奖，以及法国的.38Caliber奖等等。二〇〇三至二〇〇四年，他还担任了美国推理小说作家协会（MWA）主席一职。