Greg Iles

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Greg Iles
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Greg Iles in 2013
Born
Mark Gregory Iles

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Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
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Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Mississippi
Period1993–2024
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  • Carrie McGee (divorced)
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    Caroline Hungerford
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Mark Gregory Iles (April 8, 1960 – August 15, 2025) was an American novelist who lived in Mississippi. He published eighteen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres.

Early life

Mark Gregory Iles was born on April 8, 1960, in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, where his physician father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic.[1][2][3][4] After attending Trinity Episcopal Day School, he graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.[5]

Career

Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet.[6] He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Spandau Phoenix was published in 1992.[2]

In 2002, Iles wrote the screenplay 24 Hours from his novel of the same name. Rewritten by director Don Roos, it was renamed Trapped. Iles then rewrote the script during the shoot, at the request of the producers and actors.[7]

In 2011, Iles was seriously injured in a traffic accident on U.S. Route 61 near Natchez.[8] He sustained life-threatening injuries, including a ruptured aorta.[9] He was put into an induced coma for eight days, and lost his right leg below the knee. During his three-year recovery, he wrote three volumes of a trilogy set in Natchez, Mississippi, and featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage.[10][11][12]

Iles was a member of the literary musical group The Rock Bottom Remainders, which includes or has included authors Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, and James McBride.[13] In July 2013, he co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the group.[14] The ebook combines essays, fiction, musings, email exchanges and conversations, photographs, audio and video clips, and interactive quizzes to give readers a view into the private lives of the authors/musicians.

Personal life and death

Iles was first married to Carrie McGee; the couple had two children before divorcing.[1] In 2014, he married Caroline Hungerford, with whom he also had two children.[1][5]

Iles was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, in 1996.[5] By the early 2020s, the cancer had progressed substantially, leaving him requiring a wheelchair;[15] he underwent a stem cell transplant before the publication of his final novel, Southern Man (2024).[5] He died from the disease at his Natchez home on August 15, 2025, at the age of 65.[1][16][17]

Works

Fiction

Nonfiction

  • Hard Listening (2013), with Rock Bottom Remainders

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sandomir, Richard (August 22, 2025). "Greg Iles, Novelist Who Wrote About Race in Mississippi, Dies at 65". The New York Times. Retrieved August 22, 2025.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moran, Riley (April 30, 2025). "Greg Iles". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Mississippi Humanities Council. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beaugez, Jim (August 3, 2017). "In the creative world of bestselling novelist Greg Iles, the ax is as mighty as the pen". Guitar Aficionado. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sickler, Linda (February 12, 2015). "Author Greg Iles to discuss 'Natchez Burning' and other works at book festival". Savannah Morning News. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bolden, Bonnie (August 15, 2025). "Greg Iles, NYT best-selling author from Mississippi, died. What we know about his life, death". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Daley, Kelli (August 2003). "Greg Iles Takes on God ... and If the Almighty Wasn't Enough to Worry about, Now He's Got to Watch out for Dave Barry, Too". Archived from the original on September 9, 2020.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview with Greg Iles". The Strand Magazine. March 6, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Author Greg Iles injured in traffic accident". The Washington Post/Associated Press. March 8, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Watkins, Billy (April 27, 2014). "Author Greg Iles rebounds from near-fatal wreck". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sheehan, Bill (May 1, 2014). "With 'Natchez Burning,' Greg Iles is back better than ever". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hyde, Paul (May 5, 2014). "Tragedy changed Greg Iles book 'Natchez Burning'". The Greenville News. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beaugez, Jim (March 18, 2017). "Greg Iles' 'unvarnished truth' about racial tension culminates in 'Mississippi Blood'". Mississippi Today. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burch, Cathalena E. (March 11, 2015). "Rock Bottom Remainders: Not the best band, but the most literary". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hard Listening".
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mitchell, Jerry (August 15, 2025). "Author Greg Iles dead at 65". Mississippi Today. Archived from the original on August 19, 2025. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Griffey, Jan (August 15, 2025). "Natchez's NYT Bestselling author Greg Iles has died". Natchez Democrat. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mark Gregory Iles 1960 - 2025 Obituary". Laird Funeral Home. Archived from the original on August 19, 2025. Retrieved October 23, 2025.

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