John Lawton

John Lawton is basically an author of the crime genre novels. He has written a series of successful novels set in England during the time of World War II and Cold War. His novel series ‘Troy’ features historical depictions and espionage. John is also a director and producer of television shows. Lawton was born in the year 1949 in England. He had a brief career as a publisher in London after which he became a television producer at a newly opened channel in London during the mid-1980’s. Lawton went and settled in New York in the year 1993 where he completed his novel ‘Black Out’. He was awarded the WH Smith award for that book in 1995. After that, he went back to England and started producing television shows up to 1999. In 2001, he returned with a show titled ‘Riptide’ which was made by Columbia Pictures. He has constantly changed his residence from USA, England and Italy. He was listed by the Daily Telegraph as one of the ’50 Crime Writers To Read Before You Die’. Since then, he has read novels in many places such as Toronto, Ottawa, Seattle and Portland and in the year 2010, he was named in the New York Times Review’s ‘Pick of the Year’ for one of his novels. Lawton had developed hobbies such as cultivation of onions and varieties of potatoes. He also liked to grow leeks. Lawton’s close friends describe him as seriously engrossed in whatever he did.