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Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin, 2013.
Ian Rankin
Scottish author
Also known as: Ian James Rankin, Jack Harvey
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Ian James Rankin
- Pseudonym:
- Jack Harvey
- Notable Works:
- “A Song for the Dark Times”
- “Black and Blue”
- “Dark Entries”
- “Exit Music”
- “In a House of Lies”
- “Knots and Crosses”
- “Rebus: Long Shadows”
- “Saints of the Shadow Bible”
- “Standing in Another Man’s Grave”
- “The Beat Goes On: The Complete Rebus Short Stories”
- “The Complaints”
- “The Flood”
- “The Impossible Dead”
Ian Rankin (born April 28, 1960, Cardenden, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish best-selling crime novelist, creator of the Inspector Rebus series. (For Rankin’s reflections on the Scottish capital, see Edinburgh: A City of Stories.) Rankin grew up in a small coal-mining town, where at a young age he displayed a talent for writing poetry. He studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1982. While working on a never-finished Ph.D. in Scottish literature, he began writing the story that would become his first novel, The Flood (1986). It was published by a student-run press in ...(100 of 559 words)