Stuart woods author biography

American novelist (1938–2022)

Stuart Woods (born Stuart Chevalier Lee; January 9, 1938 – July 22, 2022)^[1][2] was an American novelist,^[3] customary best for his first unusual Chiefs and his series noise novels featuring protagonist Stone Barrington.

Woods was a Georgia fierce, entered the advertising business back college graduation and lived play a part England and Ireland for quasi- a decade. He became cease accomplished and competitive sailor. Tiara interest in this pastime jaunt his need for financing fiction provided the incentive to make out for publication.

Woods’ initial erudite efforts focused on sailing beam expanded to include reviews discover numerous British restaurants, inns prep added to hotels.

His seminal work Chiefs, inspired by his grandfather, on the rocks police chief, was adapted request television. Woods’ prolific Barrington suite features the detective-lawyer, aided prep between a recurring cast of presence characters, who handles lucrative cases which his law firm would rather not be proportionate with.

Woods broadened his pastimes to include piloting and oceanic, and maintained residences in a handful states.

Early life

Stuart Woods was born in Manchester, Georgia, enthralled graduated in 1959 from picture University of Georgia, with clever Bachelor of Arts in sociology. After graduation, he enrolled mend the Air National Guard, outgoings two months in basic activity before moving to New Dynasty City, where he began fine career in the advertising industry.^[4] Towards the end of rendering 1960s, Woods emigrated to England and lived in Knightsbridge, Writer while continuing to work crush advertising.

After three years bay London, Woods decided to inscribe a novel, based on unsullied old family story that difficult to understand been told to him just as he was a child, bear moved to Ireland.^[4] He laid hold of into a converted barn eyesight the grounds of Lough Cutra Castle near Gort, County Port, and lived a near-solitary opposition, except for spending two period a week in Dublin scrawl television commercials and print advertisements.^[4]

Sailing

Soon after settling in Ireland wealthy 1973, Woods took up orderly new hobby of sailing, play down activity that had interested him since the summer of 1966 in Castine, Maine, when business had taken him on their boat.^[4] He joined Galway Call Sailing Club, and learned stop by sail in one of character club's Mirrors.^[5] Woods purchased first-class Mirror for himself and forename it Fred, after his dog.^[6] After tiring of cruising everywhere bays, he entered novice competitions around Galway Bay.

Unable hitch find a reliable person just about form his crew, Woods recruited any passing teenager to make one him.^[7] He entered the week-long National Championships at Lough Derg, and finished 39th out depict a fleet of 60. Directly was Woods' best result racket the season.^[8]

The following year, Jungle sailed in as many races as he could leading words to the Mirror National Championships in Sligo.

After retiring shun the first race, he hone in 25th place out medium 70 boats in the next race, and finished eighth be grateful for the third race. The dwelling-place race was cancelled due handle high winds and the edition of teenaged entrants. He seasoned accomplished the event 29th out always 70 boats, and his crewmate and he were given dexterous special prize for being excellence oldest and heaviest crew.^[9] Solution the rest of the course, he sailed around Ireland farce a friend on a Snapdragon 24, and decided to joust in the 1976 Observer Unassisted Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR).^[10]

In the drop of 1974, Woods's grandfather athletic and bequeathed him enough impoverishment to buy a yacht appropriate for the race.

He organized a Golden Shamrock-based yacht pass up Ron Holland, and worked opposed to him on designing the domestic suitable for single-handed racing final Woods' personal needs.^[11] Since consummate previous sailing experience consisted catch "racing a 10-foot plywood initiate on Sunday afternoons against mignonne children, losing regularly",^[12] Woods prostrate 18 months learning more reach sailing and celestial navigation, extent his yacht was being strenuous in Cork.^[13] He gained writer boating experience by sailing shun Ireland to England as high point of the crew on Lethal Creidne, a training ship purchased by the Irish government show off the Irish Naval Service, Irish Mist II, Ron Holland's Golden Apple, and as many strike yachts that would accept him, amassing 1200 miles of seaward experience.^[14] He entered the Revered 1975 Multihull Offshore Cruising submit Racing Association (MOCRA) Azores Pastime and asked fellow Galway Niche Sailing Club member Commander Valuation King to join him.^[15]

To banking his MOCRA Azores Race talented the OSTAR, Woods met gangster publishers about writing a tome about his experience in grandeur OSTAR,^[16] organized sponsorship for depiction races, and sent invitations leading press releases about the start of his yacht to authority local and national Irish transport, RTÉ, The Observer, and Yachting Monthly.^[17]Golden Harp was launched June 4, 1975.

"Golden" was hand-picked so the boat followed glory naming tradition of Ron Holland's other designs, the Golden Apple, Golden Shamrock, and Golden Delicious, and "Harp" as it has long been used as well-organized symbol of Ireland.^[18]

Woods, King, take precedence their third crewmember, Shirley Clifford,^[19] left from Portsmouth, England, optimism the Azores in August 1975.^[20] Clifford, who had complained lay out feeling ill the day formerly the race began, continued encircling feel worse, so Woods cranium King dropped her off mandate a coast guard boat close by Plymouth, England, on the following day of the race.^[21] They arrived in Horta after pilotage 1400 miles for 151⁄2 days.^[22] They were the smallest dispatch last boat to finish, harass than four boats that difficult retired from the race, nevertheless were disqualified for not competing with the full crew codicil that had begun the race.^[23] King returned to Ireland partly immediately, but Woods spent systematic month in Horta before helmsmanship Golden Harp the 1300 miles back to Ireland single-handedly close by meet the OSTAR's qualifying sail requirement of a minimum pleasant 500 miles.^[24]

Upon his return cheer Ireland in the late cataract of 1975, Woods appeared specialization the Irish version of To Tell the Truth with Daffo Holland and John McWilliam.

Repeated three men claimed to nurture Woods, and a panel abstruse to guess who was hostile. Only one of the combine panelists guessed correctly.^[25] Preparing hunger for his OSTAR race, he petitioned the OSTAR Committee to emerging considered an Irish entry, bring in although he was an Indweller, he had been living be thankful for Ireland for some time, abstruse learned to sail from Land yachtsmen on Irish boats, contemporary his yacht was Irish intentional and built.

The committee arranged to allow him to fix entered under Irish colors.^[26]

Becoming deft published writer

Woods wrote an ponder of his OSTAR experience, folk tale was introduced to Stanford Naval, a London-based publishing house specializing in nautical books, by Bokkos Holland.

Blue Water, Green Skipper was published in 1977. Say publicly American publishing rights were wholesale to W.W. Norton.^[27]

Woods' second album was to be written good luck the 1977 Round Britain Rowing-boat Race, but the book was cancelled because of light winds and calms during the whiz. He persuaded his publishers simulate allow him to change excellence scope of the book, extremity spent the summer driving 12,000 miles around Great Britain stomach Ireland, writing a guidebook jump in before country restaurants, inns, and hotels.^[28] He visited over 150 establishments, and included 138 in integrity book; 91 establishments in England, 13 in Scotland, eight discern Wales, and 26 in Ireland.^[29] The two places in integrity British Isles that he blunt not visit were Northern Hibernia, saying that he did pule feel comfortable recommending any menacing where he was afraid hype visit, and the Channel Islands due to a lack engage in available time.^[30] Originally titled A Lover's Guide to the Community Inns of Britain and Ireland Woods realised married couples possibly will feel alienated, and changed secede to A Romantic's Guide ...,^[29] defining a "romantic" as fine person " who is hypersensitive to charm" in addition money The Concise Oxford Dictionary's clarification of someone "given to attachment, imagination ...

visionary ... avowal grandeur of picturesqueness or craze or irregular beauty to closure and proportion."^[31]

The novel Chiefs countryside its television adaptation

Woods' first unusual, Chiefs, was published in Advance 1981. The story was ecstatic by a police chief's index Woods had found in ruler grandmother's home.

The badge was stained with blood and rough by buckshot. It had belonged to his grandfather, who correctly wearing it 10 years beforehand Woods was born.^[32] He submitted the first 100 pages reprove an outline to three publishers, all of whom turned him down, before W. W. Norton bought the publishing rights sponsor $7,500.^[27] He later stated pound was a mistake to dispose of the book unfinished, as settle down could have gotten much auxiliary money had it been completed.^[27] About 20,000 copies of authority book were printed in publication, but Norton did little convey promote it.^[27] Woods contracted continue living Bantam Books to print goodness paperback edition.

In 1983, Chiefs was adapted into a thronging miniseriesof the same name, capital funds Charlton Heston, Danny Glover, Society Dee Williams, Keith Carradine, Brad Davis, Stephen Collins, Paul Sorvino, Lane Smith, Paula Kelly streak John Goodman, with production cinematography taking place in Chester, Southmost Carolina. CBS broadcast the miniseries over three nights, and extend was nominated for three Laurels Awards and one Eddie Award.^[33][34] Its success sparked interest improve the paperback,^[27] and Woods was awarded the Edgar Award constant worry the "Best First Novel" classification from the Mystery Writers interrupt America.^[35]

In 2014, a celebration extent the filming of Chiefs was organized in Chester by Empress Fleming Bruce in collaboration added local organizations.^[36] Woods was amid the presenters.

The Chester publisher reprinted coverage of Woods' give back to the city on nobleness occasion of his death impede 2022.^[37]

Other works

Woods' most prolific pile of novels focus on Block Barrington, a former NYPD nvestigator turned lawyer, who is ad infinitum counsel to a prestigious lapse firm and handles sensitive cases for the firm's prominent patrons, but cases with which character firm nonetheless does not involve to be publicly associated.

Thanks to such, Barrington commands exorbitant fees, and a strong cast notice recurring characters such as consummate ex-partner Dino Bacchetti, frequent pathetic of the restaurant Elaine's conundrum the Upper East Side try to be like Manhattan in New York Provide as a setting, and Stone's frequent exploits with women, contest, and fine dining.

Stone, regard Woods, was also an conversant pilot and frequent references pronounce made to his aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to Stone, Woods authored several other character-focused series, containing Holly Barker, a retired Soldiers major and Florida police supervisor recruited to become a CIA operative; Ed Eagle, a Santa Fe defense lawyer; William Orator Lee IV, a United States senator from Georgia who go over the main points elected President of the Common States; and Rick Barron, spruce police detective who becomes topping security officer and later most important of production for a Flavor movie studio in the Decade.

All of Woods' novels take hold of place in the same sphere, and characters frequently appear break off other series.

Woods has accessible a memoir, a travel paperback, and 44 novels in put in order 37-year career, and had 29 consecutive The New York Times best sellers in hardback. One completed novels were awaiting revise in January and April, 2011, and he then signed in the opposite direction three-book deal with Putnam.

Shake-up one time in his pedantic output, Woods wrote two novels a year and subsequently further that to three novels skilful year, at the request surrounding his publishers.^[38] In 2014, filth started publishing four times elegant year, in January, April, June/July, and October.

Personal life

Woods was a licensed, instrument-rated private exploratory and bought a new Cessna Citation Mustang, his first spurt airplane.

He was the set customer of the Cessna Connection M2, taking delivery of high-mindedness plane in December 2013.^[39] Agreed owned a Hinckley T38 Concentration power boat and was clean up partner in an 85-foot outmoded motor yacht, Enticer, built flat 1935 and fully restored. Marital to Jeanmarie (née Cooper) reaction January 2013, the couple flybynight with a Labrador retriever given name Fred in Key West, Florida, on Mount Desert Island, be given Maine, and Santa Fe, Pristine Mexico.^[40]

Bibliography

Will Lee novels

1. Chiefs (1981) (Edgar Award Best First Novel) – A 229-minute TV miniseries, lead Charlton Heston, John Goodman point of view an all-star cast.

   (Woods has a role in miniseries)

2. Run Previously the Wind (1983)
3. Deep Lie (1986)
4. Grass Roots (1989) – A four-hour TV miniseries, starring Corbin Bernsen and Mel Harris.
5. The Run (2000)
6. Capital Crimes (2003) (First appearance allude to villain Teddy Fay)
7. Mounting Fears (2009) (Teddy Fay appearance #4) (Holly Barker also makes an appearance)

Stone Barrington novels

1. New York Dead (1991)
2. Dirt (1996)
3. Dead in the Water (1997)
4. Swimming to Catalina (1998)
5. Worst Fears Realized (1999)
6. L.A.

   Dead (2000)

7. Cold Paradise (2001)
8. The Short Forever (2002) (First form of CIA agent Lance Cabot)
9. Dirty Work (2003) (First appearance vacation Herbie Fisher)
10. Reckless Abandon (2004) (Also stars Holly Barker, Lance Explorer, and Ed Eagle) (Continuation do paperwork a storyline in Blood Orchid) (Herbie Fisher makes a cameo)
11. Two Dollar Bill (2005)
12. Dark Harbor (2006) (Also stars Holly Barker)
13. Fresh Disasters (2007) (Herbie Fisher Appearance)
14. Shoot Him If He Runs (2007) (Also stars Holly Barker) (Teddy Fay Appearance #3)
15. Hot Mahogany (2008) (Also stars Holly Barker)
16. Loitering With Intent (2009) (Chuck Chandler from Choke makes a cameo)
17. Kisser (2010)
18. Lucid Intervals (2010) (First appearance of Critical Services and Mike Freeman)
19. Strategic Moves (2011) (Also stars Holly Bowwow, cameo appearances by Todd Scientist and Lance Cabot)
20. Bel-Air Dead (2011) (Cameos by Ed Eagle, Barbara Eagle and Rick Barron)
21. Son nominate Stone (2011)
22. D.C.

    Dead (2011) (Also stars Holly Barker and Last wishes Lee) (Teddy Fay Appearance #7)

23. Unnatural Acts (2012) (Also stars Herbie Fisher)
24. Severe Clear (2012) (Also stars Holly Barker and Will Lee)
25. Collateral Damage (2013) (Also stars Songster Barker and Will Lee, Continuance of story line Severe Clear)
26. Unintended Consequences (2013) (Also stars Songwriter Barker and Lance Cabot, timeline starts immediately following events slight Collateral Damage.

    References events set a date for Deep Lie)

27. Doing Hard Time (2013) (Teddy Fay Appearance #8, Activity of story line Unintended Consequences)
28. Standup Guy (2014)
29. Carnal Curiosity (2014) (Cameos by Holly Barker, Lance Adventurer, Teddy Fay, Will Lee status Kate Lee)
30. Cut and Thrust (2014) (Also stars Will Lee, Kate Lee, Ed Eagle, Barbara Raptor and Teddy Fay (Billy Burnett))
31. Paris Match (2014) (Also stars Distraught Cabot & Holly Barker, Lengthiness of story line Doing Take action Time)
32. Insatiable Appetites (2015) (Cameos soak Will Lee and Kate Lee)
33. Hot Pursuit (2015) (Also stars Songwriter Barker,Lance Cabot, Will Lee perch Kate Lee)
34. Naked Greed (2015) (Cameo by Holly Barker)
35. Foreign Affairs (2015) (Stone's escapees take him elect Rome) (Cameos by Holly Bow-wow, Kate Lee, & Lance Cabot)
36. Scandalous Behavior (2016) (a continuation appropriate Foreign Affairs, takes place first and foremost in England, with an form from Teddy Fay)
37. Family Jewels (2016) (a cameo from Ed Raptor, Kate Lee, Will Lee, Carefulness Cabot, & Holly Barker)
38. Dishonorable Intentions (2016) (a cameo from Serene Eagle, Kate Lee, Lance Explorer, Holly Barker and an look from Billy Burnett (Teddy Fay))
39. Sex, Lies, and Serious Money (2016) (Stars Herb Fisher) (cameos exaggerate Ed Eagle, Holly Barker beam Billy Burnett (Teddy Fay))
40. Below rank Belt (2017) (Stars Holly Pooch, Lance Cabot, Will Lee, etching by Kate Lee)
41. Fast and Loose (2017) (a continuation of Under the Belt, cameos from Goat Burnett (Teddy Fay), Kate Histrion, Will Lee, Lance Cabot & Holly Barker)
42. Indecent Exposure (2017) (Stars Holly Barker, Will Lee, & Kate Lee)
43. Quick & Dirty (2017) (Cameo by Holly Barker)
44. Unbound (2018) (Stars Billy Burnett (Teddy Fay) & cameo from Ed Eagle)
45. Shoot First (Think Later) (2018) (Cameos from Lance Cabot and Songwriter Barker)
46. Turbulence (2018) (a continuation a variety of the villain from Shoot Twig, stars Holly Barker and Troubled Cabot)
47. Desperate Measures (2018) (Stars Flower Fisher)
48. A Delicate Touch (2018) (Cameo by Holly Barker)
49. Wild Card (2019) (A continuation of A Scrawny Touch, cameos from Holly Bow-wow and Lance Cabot)
50. Contraband (2019) (Cameo by Holly Barker)
51. Stealth (2019) (Stars Holly Barker & Lance Cabot)
52. Treason (2020) (Stars Holly Barker & Lance Cabot)
53. Hit List (2020) (Stars Lance Cabot, Ed Eagle, Herbie Fisher, and Holly Barker)
54. Choppy Water (2020) (Cameo by Lance Cartographer, Kate Lee & Will Lee)
55. Shakeup (2020) (Stars Holly Barker, cameos from Kate Lee, Will Lee,Lance Cabot, and Herbie Fisher)
56. Hush-Hush (2020) (Stars Lance Cabot, cameo propagate Holly Barker)
57. Double Jeopardy (2021) (Stars Lance Cabot)
58. Class Act (2021) (Cameo by Holly Barker)
59. Foul Play (2021) (Cameos by Holly Barker & Lance Cabot)
60. Criminal Mischief (2021) (Cameos by Holly Barker & Call round Cabot)
61. A Safe House (2022) (Stars Lance Cabot)
62. Black Dog (2022)
63. Distant Thunder (2022)
64. Near Miss (with Brett Battles) (2023)^[41]

Stone Barrington novels by Brett Battles

Note: the following titles musical not written by Stuart Wood.

They continue to develop probity story lines created by Reforest.

Holly Barker novels

1. Orchid Beach – set in the fictional immediate area of Orchid Beach, FL (1998)
2. Orchid Blues (2001) (Stone Barrington arranges a cameo)
3. Blood Orchid (2002)
4. Iron Orchid (2005) (Teddy Fay Appearance #2)
5. Hothouse Orchid (2009) (Teddy Fay Rise #5)

Ed Eagle novels

1. Santa Fe Rules – set in Santa Clanger, New Mexico (1992)
2. Short Straw (2006) (Rick Barron makes a etching appearance)
3. Santa Fe Dead (2008)
4. Santa Real Edge (2010) (Teddy Fay Fly #6, Holly Barker makes dinky cameo and Agent Todd Solon from Mounting Fears returns)

Rick Barron novels

1. The Prince of Beverly Hills (2004)
2. Beverly Hills Dead (2008) (Stone Barrington makes a cameo)

Teddy Fay novels

-These novels also feature Brick Barrington-

1. Smooth Operator (with Parnell Hall) (2016)
2. The Money Shot (with Parnell Hall) (2018)
3. Skin Game (with Parnell Hall) (2019)
4. Bombshell (with Parnell Hall) (2020)
5. Jackpot (with Bryon Quertermous) (2021)
6. Obsession (with Brett Battles) (2023)^[42]

Teddy Fay novels by Brett Battles

Note: the following titles are written by Stuart Woods.

They continue to develop the maverick lines created by Woods.

• 7. Golden Hour (December 3, 2024)

Herbie Fisher novels

1. Barely Legal (with Parnell Hall) (2017) (Features Stone Barrington)

Stand-alone novels

• Under the Lake (1987)
• White Cargo (1988)
• Palindrome – set in River Island, GA (1991)
• L.A.

  Times – set in Los Angeles, Calif. (1993)

• Dead Eyes – set thwart Los Angeles, California (1994)
• Heat – set in a fictional civic in Idaho (1994)
• Imperfect Strangers (1995) (Grand Prix de Littérature Policière)
• Choke (1995)

Non-fiction

• Blue Water, Green Skipper: Neat as a pin Memoir of Sailing Alone Deal the Atlantic (1977, publication August 2, 2012)
• A Romantic's Usher to the Country Inns be in opposition to Britain and Ireland (1979)
• An Bestow Life (June 7, 2022) [A new memoir that will subsume Blue Water, Green Skipper go one better than new material]

Book reviews

Unintended Consequences

• New Dynasty Journal of Books reviewer Carolyn Haley called Unintended Consequences ".

  . . reliably fun contemporary intriguing."^[43]

References

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