John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

-winning journalist and best-selling novelist John Roswell Camp. Camp was born on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Iowa

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. He received a Bachelor's in American History and a Master's in Journalism from the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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From 1971 to 1978, Camp wrote for the Miami Herald. In 1978, he moved to Minneapolis and started writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a Features reporter; in 1980, he became a daily columnist. In 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer for a series of stories on Native American culture. In 1986, he won the Pulitzer for Non-Deadline Feature Writing

Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.-List of winners and their...

 for a series of stories collectively titled "Life on the Land: An American Farm Family". The series, written during the Midwest farm crisis, followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through the course of a full year. In 1989, he stopped writing full-time for the Pioneer Press http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LB&p_theme=lb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FCAE0E1E6C99FDE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM and stopped entirely the next year.

In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn a popular series. The Fool's Run (Kidd series) was published under his own name, but the publisher asked him to provide a pseudonym for Rules of Prey (Prey series) so it was published under the name "John Sandford". After the Prey series proved to be more popular, with its charismatic protagonist Lucas Davenport

Lucas Davenport

Lucas Davenport is the protagonist of the "Prey" series of detective novels written by John Sandford. In the first three novels, he is a maverick detective with the Minneapolis Police Department, a lieutenant acting independently, running a network of street contacts...

, The Fool's Run and all of its subsequent sequels have been published under John Sandford.

In 2007, Camp started a third series, featuring Virgil Flowers, who was a supporting character in Invisible Prey.

Prey series

1. Rules of Prey (1989) ISBN 0-399-13465-4
2. Shadow Prey (1990) ISBN 0-399-13543-X
3. Eyes of Prey (1991) ISBN 0-399-13629-0
4. Silent Prey (1992) ISBN 0-399-13742-4
5. Winter Prey (1993) ISBN 0-399-13815-3
6. Night Prey (1994) ISBN 0-399-13914-1
7. Mind Prey (1995) ISBN 0-399-14009-3
8. Sudden Prey (1996) ISBN 0-399-14138-3
9. Secret Prey (1998) ISBN 0-399-13465-4
10. Certain Prey (1999) ISBN 0-399-14496-X
11. Easy Prey (2000) ISBN 0-399-14613-X
12. Chosen Prey (2001) ISBN 0-399-14728-4
13. Mortal Prey (2002) ISBN 0-399-14863-9
14. Naked Prey (2003) ISBN 0-399-15043-9
15. Hidden Prey (2004) ISBN 0-399-15180-X
16. Broken Prey (2005) ISBN 0-399-15272-5
17. Invisible Prey (2007) ISBN 978-0399154218
18. Phantom Prey (2008) ISBN 978-0-399-15500-0
19. Wicked Prey (2009) ISBN 0-399-15567-8
20. Storm Prey (2010) ISBN 0-399-15649-6
21. Buried Prey (2011) ISBN 0-399-15738-7

Kidd series

1. The Fool's Run (1989, reissued 1996 under the Sandford name) ISBN 0-8050-0990-6
2. The Empress File (1991, reissued 1995 under the Sandford name) ISBN 0-8050-1545-0
3. The Devil's Code (2000) ISBN 0-399-14650-4
4. The Hanged Man's Song (2003) ISBN 0-399-15139-7

Virgil Flowers Series

1. Dark of the Moon (2007) ISBN 0-399-15477-9
2. Heat Lightning (2008) ISBN 0-399-15527-9
3. Rough Country (2009) ISBN 0-399-15598-8
4. Bad Blood (2010) ISBN 0-399-15690-9
5. Shockwave (2011) ISBN 0-399-15769-7

Other fiction books

• The Night Crew (1997) ISBN 0-399-14237-1
• Dead Watch (2006) ISBN 0-399-15354-3
• Murder in the Rough (2006) ISBN 0-89296-017-5 (short stories anthology)

Nonfiction books

• The Eye of the Heart (1988) ISBN 0-8478-0888-2
• Plastic Surgery (1989) ISBN 0-8050-0897-7

External links

• John Sandford Official site
• Fantastic Fiction Author Page
• John Sandford Bibliography at the Internet Book List