John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968.
His novels are Every Dead Thing (London, Hodder & Stoughton, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1999), Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, 1999; Dark Hollow (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000); The Killing Kind (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001/New York, Atria, 2001); The White Road (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001/Atria, 2001);The Black Angel (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003/ Atria 2003), and Bad Men (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003/Atria 2004); The Unquiet (Hodder & Stoughton/Atria 2007); The Whisperers (Hodder & Stoughton/Atria, 2010); and The Wolf in Winter (Hodder & Stoughton/Atria, 2014).
His novellas and short stories are collected as Nocturnes (Hodder & Stoughton, 2004).
He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award, For Every Dead Thing. In 2007 he was awarded the Irish Post Award for Literature.
John Connolly is based in Dublin but divides his time between there and the United States, where each of his novels has been set.
John Connolly at The National Library of Ireland
