John Katzenbach

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born

June 23, 1950 in Princeton (New Jersey), The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.johnkatzenbach.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News , and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais and they live in western Massachusetts.

He left the newspaper grind to write books, racking up 12 novels so far, psychological thrillers that have made him an international success. His first, 1982's bestselling *In the Heat of the Summer, became the movie *The Mean Season , filmed partially in The Herald's newsroom ans starring Kurt Russell and MAriel Hemingway.

Two more of his books were made into films in the United States, 1995's *Just Cause and 2002's *Ha...more

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Books by John Katzenbach

Average rating: 3.84 · 5,113 ratings · 453 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Analyst 4.00 avg rating — 2,164 ratings — published 2002 — 34 editions	My rating:
	The Madman's Tale: A Novel 3.79 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Hart's War 3.90 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Shadow Man 3.77 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Wrong Man: A Novel 3.72 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Just Cause 3.79 avg rating — 235 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	State of Mind 3.69 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	My rating:
	El profesor 3.79 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	My rating:
	In the Heat of the Summer 3.41 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1982 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Traveler 3.54 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions	My rating:

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“Acepta la locura. Crea el delirio. Establece la duda. Alimenta la paranoia.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

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“One of the things I learned in my maddest years was that one could be in a room, with walls and barred windows and locks on the doors, surrounded by other crazy people, or even stuffed into an isolation cell all alone, but that really wasn't the room one was in at all. The real room that one occupied was constructed by memory, by relationships, by events, by all sorts of unseen forces. Sometimes delusions. Sometimes hallucinations. Sometimes desires. Sometimes dreams and hopes, or ambitions. Sometimes anger. That was what was important: to always recognize where the real walls were. (176)”
― John Katzenbach, The Madman's Tale: A Novel

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“I can no longer hear my voices, so I am a little lost. My suspicion is they would know far better how to tell this story. At least they would have opinions and suggestions and definite ideas as to what should go first and what should go last and what should go in the middle. They would inform me when to add detail, when to omit extraneous information, what was important and what was trivial. After so much time slipping past, I am not particularly good at remembering these things myself and could certainly use their help. A great many events took place, and it is hard for me to know precisely where to put what. And sometimes I'm unsure that incidents I clearly remember actually did happen. A memory that seems one instant to be as solid as stone, the next seems as vaporous as a mist above the river. That's one of the major problems with being crazy: you're just naturally uncertain about things. (9)”
― John Katzenbach, The Madman's Tale: A Novel

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