John Sandford wiki, bio, age, books, author, net worth, new book, wife

Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford is an American writer and journalist. His birth name is John Roswell Camp. He uses the pseudonym John Sandford for his books.

Sandford is the author of the Prey series. Twisted Prey, the latest addition to the series, went number one in The New York Times bestseller list. He has published more than forty novels and they have been translated into many languages.

Sandford has written a thriller series with his wife Michele Cook called The Singular Menace.

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John Sandford: Personal Life, Family, Education, Wife, Children

John Sandford was born in Cedars Rapids, Iowa to Roswell Sandford Camp and Anne Agnes. He went to Cedars Rapids Catholic School and Washington Senior High School. Sanford completed his Bachelors in American History and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Iowa.

He married Susan Lee Jones in 1966. She passed away in 2007 due to breast cancer. Their marriage lasted for 41 years. They have two children together, daughter Emily and son Roswell.

In October 2013, Sandford remarried Michele Cook.

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  • Nationality: American
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Hometown: Cedars Rapids, Iowa
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  • Education: University of Iowa
  • Wife: Michele Cook
  • Children: Emily Curtis, Roswell Camp
  • Parents: Anne Agnes, Roswell Sanford Camp

John Sandford: Professional Life and Career

John Sandford is a former journalist who worked at The Miami Herald from 1971 to 1978. He worked as a reporter and columnist at The Saint Paul Pioneer Press from 1978 to 1980.

Sandford won The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his series, Life on the Land: an American farm family. He received the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Fiction Writing.

Sandford worked at The Pioneer Press for a year.

He published two of his series at the same time in 1989, one under his real name and the other his pseudonym. Since the Prey series published under the name "John Sandford" became more popular, he started using it for his books.

Some of his books including Certain Prey and Mind Prey have been adapted into movies.

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  • Profession: Novelist
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John Sandford: Net worth, Salary

The best seller author of The Fool's Run, John Sandford has an estimated net worth of 6 million dollars.

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  • Net Worth: $6 million
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John Sandford: Social Media

John Sandford has a Twitter and Facebook account and he is fairly active on his social media. He uses the platform to promote his books and provide updates on them.