21 Facts About Lee Child

1. Lee Child employs about 200 people there, and about 70 percent of them are women.

2. Lee Child served as member and chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

3. Lee Child spoke with several people about their fear regarding the implementation of the amendments to the 2012 Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law which could lead to many people becoming landless.

4. Lee Child posted on his Facebook Thursday that one Census Bureau employee who had gone unpaid during the government shutdown was unable to buy her son a birthday present.

5. In 2008, Lee Child took up visiting professorship at the University of Sheffield in UK where he funded 52 Jack Reacher scholarships for students.

6. In 2007, Lee Child produced The Chopin Manuscript in collaboration with fourteen other writers.

7. Lee Child worked at Granada from 1977 to 1995 and ended his career there with two years as a trade union shop steward.

8. At the age of 20, in 1974, Lee Child entered Law School in Sheffield, England.

9. Lee Child is a poet of diners and motels, venues that capture an itinerant's view of America.

10. Lee Child walks a fine line in depicting both the villains' depravity and Reacher's quest for retribution.

11. Lee Child knows that the literary heritage of Jack Reacher begins with the heroes of the classics, then passes through medieval knights to the cowboy heroes of the American West.

12. Lee Child was born James Grant on October 29, 1954, in Coventry, England.

13. Lee Child has have thousand of fans and supporters in England.

14. Lee Child writes his books as if he were the reader not the writer.

15. Lee Child was born in the exact geographic center of England, in the heart of the industrial badlands.

16. Lee Child often used real-life mysteries as a starting point for his plots.

17. Lee Child kept to a consistent schedule and produced a new Jack Reacher novel almost yearly.

18. Lee Child produced a draft of his first Jack Reacher novel in four months, and landed an agent.

19. Lee Child will be discussing his most recent chart-topping novel, his writing style and process and the success of his Jack Reacher character.

20. Lee Child will be appearing on Long Island for an author talk and book signing sponsored by Long Island LitFest and hosted by Huntington's Cinema Arts Centre.

21. Lee Child is candid about how that vengeance fantasy shaped the books from the start.