Linwood Barclay

What grabs me about Linwood Barclay is the reinvention. He spent years as a humor columnist and journalist before turning, past fifty, into a bestselling thriller writer with No Time for Goodbye. I think that newsroom background is exactly why his suburban-menace novels work so well: he knows how ordinary domestic life can quietly curdle into dread, and he reports it with a reporter's precision rather than melodrama. Born American, made his name in Canada, he proves a career can pivot hard and still feel earned. I have a real soft spot for storytellers who built their craft slowly before the spotlight ever found them.

Name (English)

Linwood Barclay

Name (Japanese)

リンウッド・バークレイ

Reading

りんうっど・ばーくれい

Born

January 1, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

Origin

Darien, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

journalist / novelist / writer / philologist / literary scholar

University

Trent University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.linwoodbarclay.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4

Tags

• Connecticut
• journalist
• novelist
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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