Michael Gruber





Michael Gruber

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October 01, 1940

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Michael Gruber is an author living in Seattle, Washington. He attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami. He worked as a cook, a marine biologist, a speech writer, a policy advisor for the Jimmy Carter White House, and a bureaucrat for the EPA before becoming a novelist.

He is generally acknowledged to be the ghostwriter of the popular Robert K. Tanenbaum series of Butch Karp novels starting with No Lesser Plea and ending with Resolved. After the partnership with Tanenbaum ended, Gruber began publishing his own novels under William Morrow and HarperCollins.

Gruber's "Jimmy Paz" trilogy, while critically acclaimed, did not sell at the same levels as the Butch Karp series in the United States. Th...more


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I was just meditating on one of my favorite quotations, Jacob Burckhardt's "Terrorism is essentially the rage of the literati in its last stages." (Burckhardt was an art historian of singular talent; he essentially invented our concept of the Rennaissance in Italy.) This seems so valid to me. For while people will fight for resources or to prevent aggression, we understand these guys are not bl... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 20, 2013 15:52
Average rating: 3.51 · 9,787 ratings · 1,857 reviews · 21 distinct works · Similar authors
The Book of Air and Shadows
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 4,909 ratings — published 2007 — 26 editions
The Forgery of Venus
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,332 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
The Good Son
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions
Tropic of Night (Jimmy Paz,...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions
The Witch's Boy
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
Valley of Bones (Jimmy Paz,...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions
Night of the Jaguar (Jimmy ...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions
血の協会〈下〉
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006
血の協会〈上〉
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006
L'énigme Vélasquez
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. ”
Michael Gruber, The Book of Air and Shadows

“It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.”
Michael Gruber, The Good Son

“The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good. ”
Michael Gruber, The Book of Air and Shadows

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