{"type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "birth_date": "8 May 1968", "key": "/authors/OL2301303A", "name": "Andrew Grant", "personal_name": "Andrew Grant", "photos": [15180297], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Andrew Grant is the younger brother of bestselling thriller writer <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL34328A/\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Child</a> ( pen name of James Dover Grant). After graduating from the University of Sheffield, where he studied Drama and English Literature, Grant founded a theatre company that produced original material, culminating with a critically successful appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.He later went on to spend fifteen years working in telecommunications before leaving the corporate world to become a novelist. \r\nHis debut novel, ***Even***, featuring David Trevellyan, a royal Naval intelligence officer, received stars from both *Library Journal* and *Publishers Weekly*. \r\nOn 18 January 2020, Lee Child announced that Andrew would take over as writer of the *Jack Reacher* novels, writing under the pen name of **Andrew Child**. The two brothers intend to write the next few novels together after which Andrew Grant will \"strike out on his own\".\r\n\r\nAndrew is married to novelist <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1394920A\" target=\"_blank\">Tasha Alexander</a>, and the couple live on a nature preserve near Laramie, Wyoming."}, "alternate_names": ["Andrew Child", "Child, Andrew, 1968-", "Grant, Andrew, 1968-....", "Andrew Grant novelist", "Grant, Andrew", "Child, Andrew", "Andrew Grant (novelist)", "\u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u044e \u0413\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0442", "Grant, Andrew, 1968-"], "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q4757157", "lc_naf": "n2008073817", "viaf": "11785455", "isni": "0000000037384723", "gnd": "1235236099", "bookbrainz": "bc68e665-8a04-4253-a902-6946534efdd7", "storygraph": "c07de11d-24d9-4cb7-97ad-7e8302b14221", "goodreads": "4119242", "librarything": "grantandrew-1"}, "links": [{"title": "Andrew Grant - Website", "url": "https://andrewgrantbooks.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Andrew Grant - Jack Reacher series author Lee Child 'quits and lets brother step in' The Guardian", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/18/jack-reacher-series-author-lee-child-quits-and-lets-brother-step-in", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-16T19:49:57.979898"}}