Michael Gruber

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born

October 01, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.michaelgruberbooks.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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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Books by Michael Gruber

Average rating: 3.47 · 7,033 ratings · 1,602 reviews · 21 distinct works

	The Book of Air and Shadows 3.24 avg rating — 3,528 ratings — published 2007 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Forgery of Venus 3.64 avg rating — 983 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Good Son: A Novel 3.75 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Tropic of Night (Jimmy Paz, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Witch's Boy 3.59 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Valley of Bones (Jimmy Paz, #2) 3.69 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Night of the Jaguar (Jimmy Paz, #3) 3.72 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	An Unknown Destiny: Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiation: Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner by Michael Gruber, Robert Sardello 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Chi No Kyōkai 003 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Chi No Kyōkai 001 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:

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Series by Michael Gruber

Jimmy Paz (3 books)
by Michael Gruber

3.76 avg rating — 1,318 ratings

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Quotes by Michael Gruber

“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

tags: madness , professors , teachers

5 people liked it

“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

tags: evil , good

3 people liked it

“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: A Novel

tags: shadow

3 people liked it

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