January 2019
Celebrity Photo Of The Month

Lee Child with Kim McKimmie

From Lee Child’s website:

“Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence, he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater, he joined Granada Television in Manchester, for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV’s “golden age.” During his tenure, his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995, at the age of 40 ,as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars’ worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment.”

Last month, Miss Kim had the opportunity to attend a literary event where Mr. Child spoke about his writing, living in New York City, the movies that have been from his books, and his latest book - Past Tense. Past Tense is his 23rd novel.

He is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. It is said that one of his novels, featuring his hero - Jack Reacher, is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies.

If Miss Kim was a “rock star” groupie instead of an “author” groupie — this was like her meeting Mick Jagger.