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| Born | (1958-10-06)October 6, 1958 (age 66) Chicago,Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Yale University Harvard University |
| Period | 1990–present |
| Genre | Suspense,psychological thriller,crime fiction |
| Notable works | High Crimes,Paranoia,Killer Instinct,Buried Secrets,House on Fire |
| Notable awards | International Thriller Writers Awards Best Novel (Killer Instinct), Strand Magazine Critics Award Best Novel (Guilty Secrets) |
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Joseph Finder (born October 6, 1958) is an Americanthriller writer. His books includeParanoia,Company Man,The Fixer,Killer Instinct,Power Play, and the Nick Heller series of thrillers. His novelHigh Crimes was made into thefilm of the same name starringAshley Judd andMorgan Freeman. His novelParanoia was adapted into a2013 film starringLiam Hemsworth,Gary Oldman, andHarrison Ford.
Finder was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1958[1] and spent much of his early childhood inAfghanistan and thePhilippines before his family returned to the United States and lived inBellingham, Washington, and outsideAlbany, New York.[2] He is ofJewish descent.[3] Finder majored inRussian studies atYale University, where he graduatedsumma cum laude andPhi Beta Kappa.[2] He was also a bass singer in the Yale Whiffenpoofs (1980).[4] He received a master's degree from theHarvard Russian Research Center and latertaught on the Harvard faculty.[5] He said that he "was recruited to the Central Intelligence Agency but eventually decided he preferred writing fiction".[6]
Finder publishedRed Carpet: The Connection Between theKremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen (1983), about Dr.Armand Hammer's ties to Sovietintelligence. Finder's first novel,The Moscow Club (1991), imagined aKGB coup against Soviet leaderMikhail Gorbachev. His second novel,Extraordinary Powers (1994), was about the discovery of a Sovietmole in the highest ranks of theCIA.
Paranoia (2004) was aNew York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback,[7] as wasCompany Man (2005).[8] Finder won the 2007International Thriller Writers Award for best novel forKiller Instinct (St. Martin's Press), published in May 2006.[9]Power Play, published in 2007, was nominated for aGumshoe Award.[10]Vanished, the first novel to feature Finder's series character Nick Heller, was nominated for the 2010International Thriller Writers Award for best novel.Buried Secrets, the second Nick Heller novel, won the 2011Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best Novel, sharing the award withThe Cut byGeorge Pelecanos.[11]Suspicion (2014) was the first book to be published under Finder's new contract with Dutton, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House;[12]The Fixer, another standalone, followed in 2015.[13]Guilty Minds, the third novel to feature Finder's series character, Nick Heller, was published in summer 2016.[14] Another standalone novel,Judgment, was published in 2019.[15] Dutton published the fourth Nick Heller novel,House on Fire, in 2020.[16]
Finder is a founding member of theInternational Thriller Writers Association[17] and served asFinancial Advisor toInternational PEN-New England.[12] He is also a member of theAssociation of Former Intelligence Officers. He writes on espionage andinternational affairs for publications includingThe New York Times andThe Washington Post.[2]
Finder, age 47, was born to a New York, Jewish family. In 1975, while he was in high school, he visited Israel and spent a few months at Kibbutz Tel Yosef
