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| Born | Alexander Douglas Grecian (1969-08-06)August 6, 1969 (age 55) Kansas, United States |
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| Alma mater | University of Kansas |
| Genre | Mystery fiction, Historical fiction |
| Spouse | Christy Grecian |
| Children | Graham Grecian |
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Alex Grecian (/ˈɡriːʃən/; bornAlexander Douglas Grecian on August 6, 1969) is an American author of short fiction,novels,comic books, andgraphic novels. His notable works include the comic book seriesProof and the novels in the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series:The Yard,The Black Country,The Devil's Workshop,The Harvest Man,Lost and Gone Forever, andThe Blue Girl. He has been nominated for theStrand Award for Best Debut Novel forThe Yard,The Dilys Award forThe Black Country, and theBarry Award for Best First Novel forThe Yard. He was also the recipient of anInkpot Award in 2018 and of theKansas Notable Book Awards from the State Library of Kansas forThe Yard,The Black Country,The Devil's Workshop, Lost and Gone Forever, andRed Rabbit.
As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the works ofC. S. Lewis,Charles Dickens,Lewis Carroll, andEdgar Allan Poe. He later became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse asGraham Greene,Donald E. Westlake,Ross Macdonald, andJohn D. MacDonald. Other influences includeJohn Irving,Kurt Vonnegut,Michael Chabon, andStephen King.
Grecian's first comic book work, released in 2006, was a collaboration with Canadian comic book artist and illustratorRiley Rossmo onSeven Sons,[1] a graphic novel based on the anonymously written Chinese folktaleTen Brothers known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644). In 2007, he started work onProof, also with Riley Rossmo. NPR named this series one of the best books of 2009. Grecian and Rossmo started on their third project together,Rasputin,[2] in the fall of 2014. This series is a work of fiction based on the life ofGrigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a mystical adviser[3] in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early nineteen hundreds.
In 2013, with fellow creatorsB. Clay Moore,Jeremy Haun, and Seth Peck, Grecian developed the anthology Bad Karma[4] using aKickstarter campaign. Bad Karma is a hardcover comics, prose and art collection featuring five separate, inter-related creator-owned concepts.
In May 2012 Grecian's debut novelThe Yard was released byG. P. Putnam's Sons. This novel is the first in the Murder Squad Series. The second novel in the series,The Black Country, was released in May 2013, then the third,The Devil's Workshop in May 2014, the fourth,The Harvest Man in May 2015, and the fifth,Lost and Gone Forever in May 2016. The e-bookThe Blue Girl is also a story of the Murder Squad and was released in June 2013. In April 2018 Grecian released the stand-alone bookThe Saint of Wolves and Butchers also published byG. P. Putnam's Sons. In September 2023, Grecian released the novelRed Rabbit, published byTor Books. The stand-alone sequel,Rose of Jericho, will be released in March 2025 also byTor Books.
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