John Sandford

Novelist

Birthday February 23, 1944

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Iowa

Age 80 years old

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About

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, he is most famous for his bestselling Prey series of crime novels. Beginning in the early 1980s, he worked as a columnist for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press.

Before Fame

He studied journalism and American history at the University of Iowa. During the 1970s, he wrote for the Miami Herald.

Trivia

His real name is John Roswell Camp; John Sandford is his pen name.

Family Life

He grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones.

Associated With

Marc Andreessen is another famous Iowa-born author.