1. Don Winslow was born on October 31,1953 and is an American political activist and retired author best known for his crime novels including Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy.
22 Facts About Don Winslow
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Don Winslow grew up in Perryville, a beach town near the village of Matunuck, Rhode Island.
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Don Winslow credits his parents for preparing him to become a writer: his mother was a librarian and his father was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy who told stories and invited Navy friends around who told more.
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Don Winslow majored in African history at the University of Nebraska.
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Don Winslow returned to the US in the late 1980s to work as a private investigator.
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Don Winslow followed that up with three more Neal Carey novels, Way Down on the High Lonely, for which he was a Dilys Award finalist, A Long Walk Up the Water Slide, and While Drowning in the Desert.
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Don Winslow then published the Shamus Award finalist California Fire and Life, and Looking for a Hero.
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In 2005, Don Winslow published what would become the first book in his epic "Cartel Trilogy," The Power of the Dog, about obsessive DEA Agent Art Keller's quest to take down an El Chapo-esque Sinaloan cartel.
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Don Winslow then wrote The Winter of Frankie Machine, which garnered interest all over Hollywood and was eventually bought by Paramount Pictures for Robert De Niro to star in and Martin Scorsese to direct.
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Don Winslow followed Frankie Machine with the first of his two Boone Daniels books, Dawn Patrol.
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Don Winslow was yet again a finalist for the Barry and Dilys Awards.
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In 2010, Don Winslow published Savages, which was voted a top-10 book of the year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Chicago Sun Times, and author Stephen King, and was a Barry, Dilys, and Steel Dagger Award finalist.
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In 2011, Don Winslow wrote another standalone, Satori, a prequel to Trevanian's 1979 novel Shibumi.
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Don Winslow again earned rave reviews from critics and colleagues alike.
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In 2015, Don Winslow published the second book in his Cartel Trilogy, The Cartel.
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In 2019, Don Winslow published the third and final installment of his Cartel Trilogy, The Border.
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Don Winslow's columns have appeared in the Vanity Fair, Vulture, Huffington Post, CNN Online, and other outlets.
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Don Winslow has spoken in favor of gun control, drug legalisation and reducing incarceration rates for non-violent crimes.
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In 2016, Don Winslow wrote an op-ed for Esquire arguing that the legalisation of marijuana exacerbated the war on drugs and cartel violence.
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On October 13,2020, Don Winslow Films released a video critical of Trump prior to his campaign event in Pennsylvania.
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Don Winslow said the longest he has gone without writing after a book is completed was five days.
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Don Winslow won the 2012 Raymond Chandler Award at the Courmayeur Noir Festival.