meet jake NeedhaM
Once upon a time, I was a screen and television writer, but I started writing crime novels when I realized I really didn't like movies and television all that much.
Since then, I've published twenty crime and mystery novels. I've been nominated for the Barry Award three times, and the International Thriller Writers' Award once. The seventh book in my Inspector Tay series — WHO THE HELL IS HARRY BLACK? — won the Barry Award for Best Paperback Mystery of 2024.
My wife and I live in Bangkok now, and have for over thirty years.
The romantic notion of the American expatriate novelist living an exciting life in some exotic land pretty much disappeared nearly a century ago when Hemingway and Fitzgerald fled Paris, but there are still a few of us out here.
This is where we live...
And these are the people we live here with.
So what else would you like to know?
I'm an American. I was born in Texas, graduated from Rice University and the Georgetown University Law Center, and was subsequently admitted to the bar in Washington DC, New York, and Texas. My wife was born in Bangkok, but she is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, and a prematurely retired concert pianist. We have two grown sons, both of whom now have families of their own and live in the United States.
I practiced law for a while before I stumbled into the somewhat dubious occupation of writing for film and television, and I have lived and worked outside the United States for more than forty years now.
That's pretty much it.
At least, that's all I'm going to tell you.
