John hart author biography

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John Hart’s long-awaited fifth book, “Redemption Road,” has already become his fifth New York Times bestseller, further validating his decision nearly a decade ago to quit his successful day job as a stock broker and devote his career to full-time writing.

The Durham, North Carolina, native is also the author of ‘The King of Lies,” “Down River,” “The Last Child” and “Iron House.” The only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels, he’s also nabbed the Southern Independent Booksellers’ Award for Fiction, The Barry Award and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.

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Now living in Virginia with his wife and two daughters, Hart insists that writing has been his “only real dream.”

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