Adam Davies
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“Mine All Mine” employs the hard-boiled diction of Raymond Chandler but uses it to describe the physical comedy of Lucille Ball. …Where others would settle for cool description, Davies elevates “Mine All Mine” with pithy observation, elevating even the novel’s minor players.” – San Francisco Chronicle
A Kentucky native with a career that has spanned from Random House editor to karate instructor, Adam Davies is the author of three novels: “The Frog King,” which has been adapted as a screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis (“American Psycho,” “Rules of Attraction”); “Goodbye Lemon,” the film rights of which have been purchased by Gerard Butler’s company; and his latest, “Mine All Mine,” a screwball thriller named by Booklist as one of the year’s top ten crime novels. He has also been commissioned to write the screen adaptation for “Mine All Mine.”
Currently, Adam is the fall Thornton Writer-in-Residence at Lynchburg College in Virginia. His non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times and he has made many appearances on radio and television programs, including NPR and A&E Channel’s Breakfast with the Arts,” while his books have been translated and in print in places such as Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Thailand, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and generally throughout Europe.
