HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Stuart Woods, an writer of greater than 90 novels, many that includes the nature of lawyer-investigator Stone Barrington, has died. He was once 84.
Woods died in his sleep on Friday, July 22, at his house in Litchfield County, Connecticut, his publicist, Katie Grinch, mentioned Wednesday.
Woods, a graduate of the College of Georgia in his house state, moved to New York in 1960 to pursue a occupation in journalism. He ended up as a substitute with a occupation in promoting and sooner or later moved to London after which to Galway, Eire, the place he found out crusing.
His first e-book, “Blue Water, Inexperienced Skipper,” was once a non-fiction account of his 1976 journey competing within the the Observer Unmarried-handed Trans-Atlantic Race, which started in Plymouth, England, and resulted in Newport, Rhode Island.
After W.W. Norton & Corporate obtained the American rights to the e-book, it additionally agreed to put up Woods’ first novel.
That e-book, 1981′s “Chiefs,” about 3 generations of lawmen and the homicide of a young person in a small southern the town, received literary awards and was once made right into a CBS miniseries starring Charlton Heston, Danny Glover, Billy Dee Williams and John Goodman.
The e-book’s good fortune introduced Woods’ prolific occupation as a novelist that noticed him write 5 books a yr for G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
“I write on a daily basis from 11 a.m. to midday, about one bankruptcy an afternoon,” Woods advised The Hartford Courant in 2015. “And I solution my emails. The opposite 23 hours I do the rest however write — boating, loads of studying, gazing outdated motion pictures.”
Woods won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s maximum prestigious award for crime and detective fiction, in 2010 for his novel, “Imperfect Strangers.”
Woods memoir, “An Extravagant Lifestyles,” was once printed in June. Putnam plans to liberate “Black Canine,” the 62nd e-book in Stone Barrington collection on August 2 and “Far away Thunder,” the 63rd e-book within the collection, on October 11.
Woods, who additionally had houses in New York, Florida and Maine, was once an authorized pilot who flew his personal personal jet on his e-book excursions.
He’s survived by means of his spouse, the previous Jeanmarie Cooper of Key West, Florida.
