Jack Grimwood

Jack Grimwood is the pseudonym of author Jon Courtenay Grimwood. He is a well known author from the United Kingdom, who likes to write novels on a variety of genres ranging from fantasy, crime fiction, thrillers, to science and literary fiction. He uses multiple pen names for writing his books. In fact, Grimwood a specific pen name for each of the genres. Some of the most commonly uses pseudonyms used by him include Jonathan Grimwood and Jack Grimwood. Author Grimwood was born in the year 1953, in Valletta, Malta. He spent most of his initial years in different countries, including Norway, Malta, Southeast Asia, and Britain during the 1960s & 1970s. He completed his graduate studies from the Kingston University. Following this, he worked in the field of publishing and freelance writing. Grimwood wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines such as The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, and The Times. As of today, author Grimwood resides in Winchester and Paris. He is happily married to a popular novelist and journalist named Sam Baker. Grimwood has a son named Jamie from his first marriage. Most of the early work of Grimwood within the SF & F can be categorized as post cyberpunk. Grimwood has won an award from the Association of British Science Fiction for his 2003 novel titled Felaheen. He was even shortlisted for an Arthur Clarke Award for his previous book called Pashazade. Author Grimwood received an award in 2006 from the BSFA for another novel in the category of the Best Novel. In 2002, Pashazade was shortlisted for a John Campbell Award. The 4th book written by author Grimwood is slightly based on the Victorian novel by Stanley Weyman, Under the Red Robe. Multiple novels of Grimwood have been nominated for the Locus Award.