James Patterson—A unique author

Author of the highly popular “ Women's Murder Club series” James B. Patterson is already a popular name among the book lovers. This award winning American author needs no special mention. His works themselves are self-explanatory.

James Patterson started his career as the chairman of an advertising company. His creativity can be sensed in his famous slogan "Toys R Us Kid" and he was highly successful with “ Along Came A Spider”. After that, he spend almost all of his life in writing thrilling novels and unique masterpieces and went on offering his services in offering better novels and thrillers. In his long legacy as a writer he presented almost 20 novels among which most of them were bestsellers. In 2006, in North America alone, James Patterson sold more than 12 million books and more than 120 million copies worldwide.

His writings are really unique of its kind—full of suspense, excitement and thrill. His novels featuring an African-American forensic private psychologist, Alex Cross who formerly who worked with Washington, D.C. Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been able to captivate the minds of thousands of readers. So is his latest piece “The Lake House” have created waves among the readers as a sequel to the 1998 bestselling “When the Wind Blows”.

James Patterson's works are greatly recognized by readers. In his literary career he also won many awards and medals, including he International Thriller of the Year award, the Edgar and the BCA Mystery Guild's Thriller of the Year. Because of its high-sensibility and brilliance, Time' smagazine had rightfully remarked James Patterson as "the man who can't miss". The amazing fact about James Patterson is that he was the first author whose works have simultaneously built their niches as adult and children's bestseller in the New York Times. Not only that two of its books have been included in the NovelTracker's top-ten list.

James Patterson is also popular for co-authoring with authors like Maxine Paetro and Andrew Gross. Not only hardcopy books, most of the crime novels and non-fiction best sellers, including "Freakonomics" are also found in audio versions. Some of his populars works include “Kiss the Girls”, “Jack & Jill”, “Cat and Mouse”, “Cross” , The Thomas Berryman Number and the “Maximum Ride series”.