Bryan Gruley (born November 1957) is an American writer. He has shared a

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for journalism and been nominated for the "first novel"

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by the Mystery Writers of America.

Career

Gruley studied at the University of Notre Dame where he majored in American Studies and graduated in 1979. Gruley is currently a

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for Bloomberg News, writing long form features for '' Bloomberg Businessweek'' magazine. He worked more than 15 years for '' The Wall Street Journal'' including seven years as Chicago bureau chief. With the ''Journal'', he also helped cover breaking news including the September 11 World Trade Center attack, and shared in the staff's

for that work, which cited "its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future." Gruley's first novel, ''Starvation Lake: a mystery'', was published in 2009 as a trade paperback original by the Touchstone Books imprint of Simon & Schuster. It is set in the fictional town of Starvation Lake, based on Bellaire, the seat of

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. The real

Starvation Lake Starvation Lake is a recreational and fishing lake in Kalkaska County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. The lake is approximately long and has a maximum depth of . The lake is fed primarily from submerged springs with the remainder from direct ...

is a lake in the next county, but the fictional town is on the lake, and the novel begins when the snowmobile of a long-missing youth hockey coach "washes up on the icy shores". Two sequels have followed in the so-called Starvation Lake series, ''The Hanging Tree'' (2010) and ''The Skeleton Box'' (2012). As of May 2013 Gruley is working on a new novel set in a different town with different characters. Gruley played ice hockey as a boy and continues to play in his fifties, and to root for the

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. He was schooled in Detroit, at Detroit Catholic Central, but the family vacationed up north and acquired a cottage in 1971 on Big Twin Lake near Bellaire, which the six siblings used until some time after their parents died. His first newspaper job was in the region as a 1978 summer intern at ''Antrim County News''. Gruley and his wife Pam currently live on the North Side of Chicago. They have three grown children.

Books

* ''Paper Losses: a modern epic of greed and betrayal at America's two largest newspaper companies'' (New York:

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, 1993) * ''

'' ( Simon & Schuster, 2009). * ''The Hanging Tree'' (2010). * ''The Skeleton Box'' (2012). *''Bleak Harbor: A Novel'', Thomas & Mercer, 2018

Awards

* 2002, shared by staff of the ''Wall Street Journal'', Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting."The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Breaking News Reporting"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved September 14, 2012. With reprints of ten works (''WSJ'' articles, September 12, 2001). ''Starvation Lake'' (Touchstone/S&S, 2009) * 2009 ''

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'', Best Mystery Set Near a Lake * 2009 '' The Strand Magazine'' Critics Award, Best First Novel * 2010 Anthony Award (Boucheron world mystery convention), Best Paperback Original * 2010 Anthony Award nomination, Best First Novel * 2010 Barry Award (editors of ''Deadly Pleasures''), Best Paperback Original * 2010

( Mystery Writers of America), nomination, Best First Novel by an American author, ''Starvation Lake''. ''The Hanging Tree'' (Touchstone/S&S, 2010) * 2011 Anthony Award nomination, Best Paperback Original * 2011 Barry Award nomination, Best Paperback Original * 2011 Michigan Notable Book Award

References

External links

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''Starvation Lake: a mystery''
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Career

Books

Awards

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