Iles played in a band called Frankly Scarlet for several years. He earned about $30,000 a year playing the guitar while earning his English degree at the University of Mississippi, known as Ole Miss, from which he graduated in 1983 (Padgett). Interestingly, while at Ole Miss, Greg Iles lived in the cabin where William Faulkner and his brothers heard stories told by Mammy Callie, Faulkner’s nanny. Before writing novels, his first love was music (Watkins 1A). There Iles, who graduated from Trinity High School, was a National Merit finalist. He moved to the United States in 1963 when he was three years old and spent most of his life growing up in Natchez, Mississippi (Baughn). Iles was born in 1960 during the height of the Cold War in Stuttgart, Germany, where his father was the head of the U.S. Even though he spends much time writing novels and participating in book signings, Greg Iles also finds time to spend with the most important people in his life: his two children, Madeline and Mark. This nationally-acclaimed Mississippi writer not only spends his time writing novels that are full of suspense from to cover to cover, but he is also a screenwriter and a talented musician. Greg Iles has gone from being an unknown writer from Natchez, Mississippi, to the writer of many New York Times best-sellers since 1992.
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