John Dixon
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | West Chester, PA, United States |
| Introduction | My wife and I live with two pets – a cat and a dog – just outside Philadelphia, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. For years, I wrote short stories and taught middle school English, but now I'm writing full-time and loving it. Thanks to my excellent agent, Christina Hogrebe of the Jane Rotrosen Agency, and my also-excellent film agent, Joseph Veltre of the Gersh Agency, my YA thriller PHOENIX ISLAND (Formerly known as DISSIDENT; coming soon from Simon & Schuster / Gallery Books) is now the basis for the CBS television series INTELLIGENCE, starring Josh Holloway, Marg Helgenberger, and Meghan Ory (airing Monday nights at 10, starting in February 2014). |
| Interests | Reading, writing, boxing, chess, stone masonry |
| Favorite movies | REPO MAN; SHAUN OF THE DEAD; CONAN THE BARBARIAN; LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS; FIRST BLOOD; ROCKY; THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION; O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? |
| Favorite music | Iron Maiden, Tom Waits, old hardcore... |
| Favorite books | THE STAND by Stephen King; CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller; The HARRY POTTER books; THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE by George V. Higgins; ALL THE PRETTY HORSES and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy; THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins; SHOOT by Douglas Fairbairn; GATEWAY by Frederik Pohl; THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Caine; DUNE by Frank Herbert; HOME IS THE SAILOR by Day Keene; SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 by Kurt Vonnegut; SHOGUN by James Clavell; RUMBLE FISH by S.E. Hinton; as well as books by Ray Bradbury, Elmore Leonard, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, and other books by the authors mentioned above. |