| Stuart Woods hales from Manchester, Georgia, | | | | and cold, with "Chiefs" as his masterpiece. You will |
| being born on January 9, 1938. He says that his | | | | have to be the judge. |
| mother taught him to read before he ever | | | | Stuart has been married twice but is a self |
| entered school. He says he became a voracious | | | | proclaimed bachelor, again. Along with his black lab, |
| reader and even tried writing a novel when he | | | | Fred, (Stuart says he names all his dogs Fred) |
| was nine. When he found out how hard it was, he | | | | Stuart makes his homes in Key West Florida, |
| gave up on the project. | | | | Maine and New York. These days, he says, he |
| Stuart graduated from the University of Georgia | | | | sails on other peoples's boats. |
| with a BA in sociology in 1959. He says he enlisted | | | | Books by Stuart Woods: |
| in the Air National Guard, jokingly calling it "the | | | | Series: |
| draft dodger program." However, in the mid | | | | Will Lee: |
| sixties, he was called to duty in Germany where | | | | Chiefs (1981) |
| he spent 10 months. He says the only thing he | | | | Run Before the Wind (1983) |
| flew was a truck. | | | | Deep Lie (1986) |
| Moving to New York in 1960, Stuart went to | | | | Grass Roots (1989) |
| work in a job training program at an advertising | | | | The Run (2000) |
| agency. He says his secretary made more money | | | | Capital Crimes (2002) |
| than him. Then he spent three years in London | | | | Mounting Fears (2009) |
| working at various ad agencies. | | | | Holly Barker: |
| In 1973, Stuart moved to Ireland ostensibly to | | | | Orchid Beach (1998) |
| write his first novel. He worked in an advertising | | | | Orchid Blues (2001) |
| agency in Dublin two days a week to support | | | | Blue Orchid (2002) |
| himself. It was during this time that he became | | | | Reckless Abandon (2004) |
| interested in sailing, starting out by competing in | | | | Iron Orchid (2005) |
| dinghy racing against young local children. | | | | Hothouse Orchid (2009) |
| The novel, "Chiefs," got shelved for eight years | | | | Stone Barrington: |
| and was finally published in 1981. The paperback | | | | New York Dead (1991) |
| established Stuart as a serious novelist. It was | | | | Dirt (1996) |
| made into a three part television mini series | | | | Dead in the Water (1997) |
| starring Charleston Heston and Danny Glover in | | | | Swimming to Catalina (1998) |
| 1983. Stuart had a small part as an FBI agent in | | | | Worst Fears Realized (1999) |
| part three. He said the hardest part of writing the | | | | L.A.Dead (2000) |
| book, "Chiefs," was finishing it. After all it was a | | | | Cold Paradise (2001) |
| story he wanted to tell since he was a youngster. | | | | The Short Forever (2002) |
| What was the delay you ask? Sailing is the | | | | Dirty Work (2003) |
| answer. Stuart's grandfather died leaving some | | | | Reckless Abandon (2004) |
| money for him in his will. Stuart bought a boat! | | | | Two-Dollar Bill (2005) |
| Actually, he had a yacht built and in 1975 he | | | | Dark Harbor (2006) |
| joined the Multihull Offshore Cruising and Racing | | | | Fresh Disasters (2007) |
| Association Azores Race. Stuart published a book, | | | | Shoot Him if He Runs (2007) |
| in 1977, about his experiences in that race entitled, | | | | Hot Mahogany (2008) |
| "Blue Water, Green Skipper." | | | | Loitering With Intent (2009) |
| Stuart is known for his mastery of creating | | | | Kisser (2009) |
| suspense in a novel. In an interview, Stuart admits | | | | Lucid Intervals (2010) |
| that the only writing class he took was a | | | | Ed Eagle |
| correspondence course at the University of | | | | Santa Fe Rules (1992) |
| Georgia, to fill out his five credits to graduate, | | | | Short Straw (2006) |
| everything else he learned in the advertising | | | | Santa Fe Dead (2008) |
| business. Another of Stuarts novels, "Grass | | | | Rick Barron: |
| Roots," was made into a television mini series in | | | | The Prince of Beverly Hills (2004) |
| 1993. | | | | Beverly Hills Dead (2008) |
| Once Stuart started writing, he became quite | | | | Stand Alone Novels: |
| prolific, sometimes producing two books a year; | | | | Under The Lake (1986) |
| no great feat. Now at the request of his publisher, | | | | White Cargo (1988) |
| he has agreed to write three books per year. | | | | Palindrome (1991) |
| Some feel that Stuart Woods writing runs hot | | | | L.A. |