Robert Crais

Robert Crais is the kind of craftsman I quietly champion. He cut his teeth writing for Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice, then translated that televisual sense of pacing into detective novels that move like film. You can trace his lineage straight back to Chandler, Hammett and Hemingway, but he metabolized those influences into a voice of his own. The shelf of honors, Anthony, Shamus, the Grand Master nod, isn't decoration; it's evidence of a writer who kept getting sharper. What impresses me is the discipline behind the cool prose. I'll always have time for a storyteller who respects both the genre and the reader.

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Name (English)

Robert Crais

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・クレイス

Reading

ろばーと・くれいす

Born

June 20, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / writer / novelist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

University

Louisiana State University

Awards & achievements

• 1988 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
• 1997 Shamus Award
• 2008 Gumshoe Awards
• 2000 Dilys Award
• 2008 Barry Award for Best Thriller
• 2014 The Grand Master
• 2013 Shamus Award

• Official sitehttps://www.robertcrais.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Crais
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922053

Tags

• Louisiana
• screenwriter
• writer
• novelist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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