Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty is an Irish crime novelist who has won the Ned Kelly Award and been shortlisted for the Edgar Award, Dagger Award, Anthony Award, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
CountryIreland
noir
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
followed met studied
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.
major man school
I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.