Spring Author Series: C.J. Box
Spend an evening at the library with award-winning novelist C.J. Box, talking about "Life and Writing in the Mountain Time Zone." This community talk is free.
|About the author
C. J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel for Blue Heaven, as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. His short stories have been featured in America’s Best Mystery Stories of 2006 and limited-edition printings. His 2008 novel Blood Trail was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin (Ireland) Literary Award. The novels have been translated into 25 languages. Blue Heaven and Nowhere to Run have been optioned for film.
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. In 2008, Box was awarded the "BIG WYO" Award from the state tourism industry. 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. They have three daughters. He lives in Wyoming.
His newest Joe Pickett novel, Cold Wind, was released last year and debuted at No. 10 on the New York Times bestseller list. A standalone thriller called Back of Beyond was released in August and debuted at No. 15 on theNew York Times bestseller list. Force of Nature comes out on March 20, 2012.
Read more about Box, his character Joe Pickett, his books and interviews on his web site here.
Reading List
Including links to accessing C.J. Box' books from the library collection! There are also honor copies of his books available for loan in a display by the library's front desk.
C.J. Box's Joe Pickett Novels (listed in order of publication)
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has now been the protagonist in 12 novels, starting with Open Season in 2001. Over the decade, Joe Pickett has been through some harrowing adventures. Over that time, he’s taken on environmental terrorists, rogue federal land managers, animal mutilators, crazed cowboy hitmen, corrupt bureaucrats, homicidal animal rights advocates, and violent dysfunctional families. Joe has matured, lost some of his innocence and naïveté, and committed acts that continue to haunt him. But through it all, he has remained true to himself and his family. And even when he knows that pursuing justice will bring the community, state, and his superiors down on his head, well...he just can’t help it.
“…Box introduced us to his unlikely hero, a game warden named Joe Pickett, a decent man who lives paycheck to paycheck and who is deeply fond of his wife and his three daughters. Pickett isn't especially remarkable except for his honesty and for a quality that Harold Bloom attributes to Shakespeare -- the ability to think everything through for himself.” -- The New York Times.
Open Season
Savage Run
Winterkill
Trophy Hunt
Out of Range
In Plain Sight
Free Fire
Blood Trail
Below Zero
Nowhere to Run
Cold Wind
Force of Nature (available March 20, 2012).
C..J. Box's Stand Alone Novels
Blue Heaven
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Back of Beyond
AUDIO! Listen to C.J. Box's novels on CD
Blue Heaven
Back of Beyond
Blood Trail
Below Zero
Nowhere to Run
Out of Range
Free Fire
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
About the Spring Author Series at BWML
Bud Werner Memorial Library presents a series of free author talks throughout spring 2012. We proudly welcome C.J. Box (March 8), Craig Childs (April 5) and Helen Thorpe (May 11) into our library, and our community. Each of these diverse award-winning authors will speak about their literary works and their writing processes during a talk in Library Hall. Each talk will be followed by a Q&A and an opportunity to have authors sign copies of their books.
Books will be for sale on-site at the event courtesy of Off the Beaten Path Bookstore.
Bud Werner Memorial Library thanks Bear Claw Condominiums and Denny and Joy Swanson for their generous lodging support for this program.