Walter Sorrells is an American author of mystery and suspense novels for adults and teens, who also writes under thepseudonymsLynn Abercrombie andRuth Birmingham. He also hand-forges swords and knives in the Japanese style.

Sorrells has written many novels, includingFake I.D., named one of the ten Best Mysteries byBooklist magazine in 2005 and several novels based-on the television seriesFlight 29 Down.

His novelFulton County Blues, as Ruth Birmingham, won the 2000Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original.^[1]

Sorrells was born in 1962 inNashville, Tennessee.^[2] He graduated fromHaverford College in 1985,^[3][4] where he majored inhistory.^[2]

He is married to Patti Sorrells, and the couple have a son, Jake.^[5] They live inAtlanta.^[5]

Sorrells holds a third-degreeblack belt in JapaneseShito-ryu karate and has studied Brazilianjiujitsu,aikido, andTai Chi.^[3] He has also studiedOkinawan kobudō, the weapon systems ofOkinawan martial arts, as well as the Japanese sword arts ofIaido and Shinkendo.^[3]

Additionally, Sorrells is a competitive pistol shooter.^[4]

Sorrells began writing novels in his mid-twenties^[4] and published his first novel,Power of Attorney, in 1994.

Aside from writing, Sorrells handcrafts elaborate knives and swords.^[4] He began "making blades as research for a character: “The novel died, but the pursuit lived,” he stated.^[4]

• The Body Box (2005)
• Blind Fear (2006)

• Ten Rules adaption, created byD.J. MacHale andStan Rogow (2006)

• Static adaption, created byD.J. MacHale andStan Rogow (2006)
• Scratch adaption, created byD.J. MacHale andStan Rogow (2006)
• On Fire adaption, created byD.J. MacHale andStan Rogow (2007)
• Survival adaption, created byD.J. MacHale andStan Rogow (2007)

• The Travelers: Book Two (2009)
• The Travelers: Book Three, withD. J. MacHale (2009)

• Fake ID (2005)
• Club Dread (2006)
• Whiteout (2009)

• Power of Attorney (1994)
• Cry for Justice (1996)
• Will to Murder (1996)
• The Silent Room (2006)
• First Shot (2007)
• Erratum (2008)

• Atlanta Graves (1998)
• Fulton County Blues (1999)
• Sweet Georgia (2000)
• Blue Plate Special (2001)
• Cold Trail (2002)
• Feet of Clay (2006)

• Walter Sorrells's Official Author's Website
• Walter Sorrells's Official Swordsmith Website

• Living people
• Edgar Award winners
• 1962 births
• Pseudonymous writers
• Haverford College alumni
• 20th-century American writers
• 21st-century American writers
• Writers from Nashville, Tennessee
• Writers from Atlanta

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