![]() His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed. ![]() He is the author of thirty-one Prey novels, most recently Ocean Prey four Kidd novels twelve Virgil Flowers novels three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook and three stand-alones. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist John Camp. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. From 1990 to the present he has written thriller novels. Paul Pioneer-Press from 1978-1990 in 1980, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Pulitzer in 1986 for a series of stories about a midwestern farm crisis. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald from 1971-78, and then a reporter for the St. Army from 1966-68, worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian from 1968-1970, and went back to the University of Iowa from 1970-1971, where he received a master's degree in journalism. ![]() In 1966, he married Susan Lee Jones of Cedar Rapids, a fellow student at the University of Iowa. He then spent four years at the University of Iowa, graduating with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966. ![]() He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids, graduating from Washington High School in 1962. ![]() John Sandford was born John Roswell Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ![]()
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