HEATHER MARTIN
LIVE Q & A
WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2021 7PM GMT
How difficult is it to write a biography? Especially about an international bestselling household name! How does a biography take shape? Where do you head to get a biography published? And what happens behind the scenes of one of the most successful literary franchises in the world? We loved hearing about Lee’s journey to writing success and the adventure Heather embarked upon to write an accurate and highly indepth account of Lee’s life. We found out how the character of Jack Reacher came to be and Heather’s tips on researching one of the most successful novelists in today’s book charts.
HEATHER MARTIN
Heather Martin was born in West Australia and moved to London aged sixteen with the idea of becoming a musician. Four years of guitar-playing and a Venezuelan folk group later, she wound up reading languages at Cambridge instead. This led to lectureships in twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature first at Hull, then at King’s College London, and thence to a career in teaching, writing and translating. While researching her biography of Lee Child she was based for a year at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University New York.
