{"type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "bio": "Justin Scott is the author of thirty-eight thrillers, mysteries and sea stories including The Man Who Loved The Normandie, Rampage, and The Shipkiller, which the International Thriller Writers lists in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.\r\n\r\nBorn in Manhattan July 20, 1944, he grew up on Long Island\u2019s Great South Bay in a family of professional writers. His father, A. Leslie Scott, wrote Westerns and poetry. His mother, Lily K. Scott, wrote novels and short stories for slicks and pulps. His sister, Alison Scott Skelton, is a novelist, as was her late husband, C.L. Skelton.\r\n\r\nThe Mystery Writers of America nominated Scott for Edgar Allan Poe awards for Best First Novel (1974)and Best Short Story (1994). He has been a member of the Authors League, the Adams Round Table and, for thirty-five years, The Players. He is an Eagle Scout.\r\n\r\nScott holds Bachelors and Masters in history, (B.A. Harpur College, 1966; Two-year M.A. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1969). Before becoming a writer, he drove boats and trucks, built Fire Island beach houses, edited an electronic engineering journal, and tended bar in a Hell\u2019s Kitchen saloon.\r\n\r\nHe writes the Ben Abbott detective series about a small-town Connecticut real estate agent, and collaborated with Clive Cussler on nine Isaac Bell detective adventure series thrillers set in Teddy Roosevelt\u2019s Progressive Era, three of which debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.\r\n\r\nPAUL GARRISON is his main pen name under which he writes modern sea stories and an occasional thriller based on a Robert Ludlum character.\r\n\r\nScott lives in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards, with whom he collaborated on a 2021 thriller published by the University of Louisiana Press\u2014Forty Days and Forty Nights by Amber Edwards & Justin Scott.\r\n\r\nHis latest book, just emerging from the computer, is an Elizabethan historical novel, Treason\u2019s Playwright.", "alternate_names": ["PAUL GARRISON"], "birth_date": "20 July 1944", "personal_name": "Justin Scott", "name": "Justin Scott", "links": [{"title": "Justin Scott's bio", "url": "https://branford.yalecollege.yale.edu/justin-scott", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL581593A", "photos": [14602956, 14614669, 14614668], "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-30T13:58:45.058415"}}