C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.
Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. They have three daughters. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Box lives in Wyoming.
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Pickett, joe (fictitious character), fiction, Wyoming, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Game wardens, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, New York Times bestseller, Joe Pickett (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, Crime, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Investigation, Missing persons, fiction, Montana, fiction, Murder, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Fiction, crime, Game protection, Joe Pickett (Fictional character), North dakota, fiction, Policewomen, fictionPlaces
Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Denver (Colo.), Helena National Forest (Mont.), Yellowstone National Park, Colorado, Denver, New York (N.Y.), Wyoming (USA)People
Joe Pickett (Fictitious character), Cotton Malone (Fictitious character), Jack Reacher (Fictitious character), Roy Grace (Fictitious character), Temperance Brennan (Fictitious character)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL1392611A
- GoodReads: 314195
- ISNI: 0000000119713471
- LibraryThing: boxcj
- VIAF: 102403163
- Wikidata: Q856006
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q856006
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