Chris Pavone
Chris Pavone was born on July 23, 1968, in New York City. A citizen of the United States, Pavone pursued his formal education at Cornell University before going on to establish himself as a writer working in the English language.
Pavone works as a novelist and crime fiction writer, producing English-language prose in the crime fiction genre. His debut novel, The Expats, earned a place on the New York Times bestseller list, demonstrating that his work could reach a broad reading public. The commercial success of that first novel was accompanied by substantial recognition from within the crime fiction community.
The critical acknowledgment for The Expats was formalized through two awards. The novel received the Edgar Award as well as the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Together, these two prizes represent a rare double distinction for a debut work, placing Pavone among crime fiction writers recognized by both award bodies for the same book.
Pavone continues to work as a novelist and crime fiction writer based in the United States, producing work in the English language. His career is grounded in the dual achievement that defined his debut: the commercial reach of a New York Times bestseller combined with the award recognition conferred by the Edgar and Anthony prizes for The Expats.
Quotes by Chris Pavone
In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.
I give tremendous weight to my positive reviews and none whatsoever to my negative ones.
There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books - and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them - that's just overwhelming to me now.
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make my manuscript better, people who've made careers out of providing careful, constructive criticism to writers. I'm tremendously grateful to them.
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.
I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.