Jeff Lindsay

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Jeff Lindsay in September 2007

Jeffry P. Freundlich (born July 14, 1952 in Florida ), pseudonym Jeff Lindsay , is an American author .

Life

After attending Ransom Everglades High School, he graduated from Middlebury College in 1975 . His first novel Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense was published in 1994. In the 1990s, three more works followed, but it wasn't until 2004 that Lindsay celebrated her breakthrough and his first major success with Darkly Dreaming Dexter . Several sequels appeared in the series in the following years. The main character, Dexter Morgan, is a serial killer who works for the police as a forensic scientist and in his double life kills criminals who have escaped punishment by the law. In 2006, Lindsay's idea was adapted by the US pay-TV broadcaster Showtime for a television series, which ran successfully until 2013 under the title Dexter . Michael C. Hall played the role of Dexter . Since 2008 the series has also been broadcast on German-speaking television.

Jeff Lindsay lives with his wife Hilary Hemingway in Cape Coral , Florida . She is Ernest Hemingway's niece .

Works

Novels

Dexter Morgan series

  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004) (dt. Of death's dark brother , translated by Frauke Czwikla, 2004)
  • Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005) (German Dark Demon , translated by Frauke Czwikla, 2005)
  • Dexter in the Dark (2007) (German: Come back, my dark brother , translated by Frauke Czwikla, 2009)
  • Dexter By Design (2009) ( The beautiful art of murder: A Dexter thriller , translated by Frauke Czwikla, 2010)
  • Dexter is Delicious (2010) (German Dexter , translated by Frauke Czwikla, 2013)
  • Double Dexter (2011)
  • Dexter's Final Cut (2013) (originally planned as Dexter's Debut )
  • Dexter is Dead (2015)

Further

  • Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense (1994)
  • Dream Land: A Novel of the UFO Coverup (1995)
  • Time Blender (1997)
  • Dreamchild (1998)

Non-fiction

  • Hunting with Hemingway: Based on the Stories of Leicester Hemingway (2000) (with Hilary Hemingway)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Dexter's Debut” By Jeff Lindsay Becomes “Dexter's Final Cut”. March 11, 2013, accessed August 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindsay, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kind, Jeffry P. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida