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Gregg Hurwitz
Best-Selling Novelist
BIO
Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, The Crime Writer, and Trust No One. His books have been short-listed for best novel of the year by International Thriller Writers, nominated for CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, chosen as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, honored as Book Sense Picks, and translated into sixteen languages.
He has written screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Studios, MGM, and ESPN, developed TV series for Warner Bros. and Lakeshore, written Wolverine, Punisher, and Foolkiller for Marvel, and published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare. He has taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and around the world. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swam with sharks in the Galápagos, and gone undercover into mind-control cults.
Gregg grew up in the Bay Area. While completing a BA from Harvard (’95) and a master’s from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy (’96), he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for his pole-vaulting exploits, and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow. He now lives in L.A. where he continues to play soccer, frequently injuring himself.
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BOOKS
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The Survivor
A Novel St. Martin's Press
The #1 international bestselling author of You’re Next, unleashes his most accomplished, compelling thriller yet
One morning in Los Angeles, Nate... |
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
You're Next
Gregg Hurwitz
Mike Wingate had a rough childhood—-he was abandoned at a playground at four years old and raised in foster care. No one ever came... |
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Forge Books
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From... |
SPEECHES
An Evening with Gregg Hurwitz: The best-selling thriller and mystery writer discusses his prolific career and the success of his novels. He details various missions that he undertook in order to research the perfect story, such as his adventures with sharks in the Galápagos to his first-hand experience in cadaver freezers. Gregg’s dedication to his stories’ facts proves inspiring.Can We Protect Ourselves from Mind Control?: Mind control continues to be a concern for many as over 20 million people have been recruited into cults in the past two decades. Gregg Hurwitz went undercover into various cults and discovered the techniques of mind control, which he outlined in his bestselling novel, The Program. Gregg’s lecture reveals the manipulative strategies that people everywhere—from cult leaders to car salesmen—use, and how we can protect ourselves. This lecture is recommended for college students, who make up the key target demographic for cult recruiters.
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