Marshall Karp
1942
Marshall Karp is one of the renowned novelists from America, who likes to write his novels related to the genres of crime fiction and police procedural. He is particularly well known for writing the Lomax and Biggs series of novels. Author Karp used to work as an executive in an advertising company prior to the beginning of his writing career. While working for this job, he came across his future good friend and co-author named James Patterson. In addition to the crime fiction novels, author Karp also likes to create screenplays, teleplays, and stageplays. He is known to have written the screenplay for a movie of Jason Alexander, called as Just Looking. This movie was produced in the year 2000. As far as his television career is concerned, he considers himself privileged to have gotten the chance to work with popular personalities, like Connie Sellecca, George Clooney, Jane Curtain, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Author Karp started his career in the field of writing in the year 2006 with the publication of his debut novel titled as The Rabbit Factory. This novel also served as the first one in his popular crime fiction series. The career of Karp is said to have spanned through a variety of fields, including marketing, advertising, stage, and screen. He has authored a play called Squabbles. Living the life of a writer has so far proved to be very good for Karp. He says that he has been lucky enough to pen several commercials, TV sitcoms, a movie, a play, and around 10 thriller novels over the past 10 years.