Roy Johansen

Roy Johansen is one of the acclaimed authors from The United States, who likes to write mystery and suspense novels. He is particularly famous for collaborating with his mother named Iris Johansen, who is also a well established author herself. Author Johansen is also popular as a screenwriter. Under this profession, he is known to have worked on projects for MGM, Universal, Disney, Warner Bros, and United Artists. The screenplay, written by him for Murder 101 was used for cable television production. It went on to win the Focus and Edgar Awards. He started his writing career in the year 1999 with the release of his debut book titled The Answer Man. Since then, he has written several books in his career, mostly as a co-author. Recently, he started writing independently. Author Johansen has achieved the status of a New York Times bestselling author. He had started writing the screenplay of Murder 101 while he was studying in college. And entered into a competition organized by George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. Johansen’s screenplay emerged victorious in the competition and won the Focus Award. Later, the screenplay was produced for a television show that featured Pierce Bosnan. It also became highly successful and was awarded with the Edgar Award from the MWA in the category of the Best Movie or Television Miniseries. Following this success, Johansen teamed up with the legend of comic books named Stan Lee for creating the superhero character The Accuser. This character appeared in an animated adventure series produced by the Stan Lee Media. After this collaboration, author Johansen started getting more offers and eventually got the chance to work with major production houses like Universal Pictures, MGM, Warner Bros, Disney, etc. Author Johansen is happily married and lives along with his wife in California. He is currently busy writing the next book of his independent novel series called the Joe Bailey, Spirit Basher. He is expected to publish his next novel in the coming days.