Simon Beckett author biography, plus links to books by Simon Beckett.

Simon Beckett

Simon Beckett was born 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, England. After an MA in English, Beckett spent several years as a property repairer before teaching in Spain. Back in the UK, he played percussion in several bands. He has been a freelance journalist since 1992, writing for national British newspapers and magazines. Some of his more memorable assignments have included going on police drugs raids, touring brothels with a vice unit and trying to learn how to win a gun fight in Nevada. It was a visit to the Body Farm in Tennessee that was the inspiration behind the internationally bestselling David Hunter crime thrillers, which have now been translated into 29 languages.

Simon's novels have now sold over 8 million copies worldwide, and he was the UK's top selling author in Europe for 2009. The Chemistry of Death was shortlisted for the 2006 CWA's Duncan Lawrie (Gold) Dagger and the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year in 2008. He has also been shortlisted twice for the Dagger in the Library award, in 2009 and 2010, when he was highly commended. In 2011 The Calling of the Grave spent nine weeks at the top of the German hardback charts, and also reached No. 1 in Austria, Switzerland and Poland

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This biography was last updated on 09/25/2007.

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