Jack Kerley

Fast Facts:

• Jack Kerley worked in advertising for over 20 years before becoming a full-time novelist.
  
  
• Kerley's writing influences include Leslie Charteris, John D. MacDonald, William Shakespeare, Ken Kesey, T.S. Eliot, James Dickey and Theodore Roethke.
  
  
• Carson Ryder, the protagonist of THE DEATH COLLECTORS and THE HUNDREDTH MAN, was named after famous frontiersman Kit Carson and American artist Albert Pinkham Ryder.
  
  
• Prior to selling THE HUNDREDTH MAN, Kerley entered a short story contest on a dare and won first place.
  
  
• Kerley wrote THE HUNDREDTH MAN --- his first published novel --- after finishing an earlier novel.
  
  
• Foreign rights for THE HUNDREDTH MAN were sold in numerous countries, including Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovakia and the UK
  
  
• Kerley's hobbies include fishing and playing the guitar.
  
  
• An avid angler, Kerley says he follows an "angler's schedule, driven by the sun" while working on his books.
  
  

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