Clyde Phillips
1958
Clyde Phillips is a popular American author known for writing the bestselling mystery thrillers, the Jane Candiotti series. Even as he writes the crime thriller series, he is best known as a film and TV producer, where he has been show runner for several blockbuster movies and TV series. Some of his most successful productions include Showtime’s acclaimed “Nurse Jackie”, and “Dexter”, one of the network’s most popular and successful series, that won an Emmy nomination. As executive producer he has worked on shows such as NBC’s “Suddenly Susan”, “Shout About Movies”, Fox’s “Parker Lewis Can’ Lose”, and “Get Real”. As for his published novels, he published the first of the Jane Candiotti series of novels in 1998 with the publication of the highly popular “Fall From Grace”. Clyde was born in Boston and went on to attain his graduate degree from the UCLA. He lives in Martha’s Vineyard, Connecticut with his wife Jane and their daughter. They also have a house in California given most of Phillips work in film and production is in the state.