Michael Koryta

Michael Koryta began writing at a very early age. As an eight-year-old boy, he wrote to his favorite writers, and by the age of sixteen he had decided he wanted to become a crime novelist. His novel Tonight I Said Goodbye won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel prize. Many of Koryta's novels have been optioned for potential film or television production. The first to make it to the screen is Taylor Sheridan's adaptation of Those Who Wish Me Dead. ==Personal life==

He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Bloomington, Indiana. Koryta was born and raised in Bloomington. He graduated from Bloomington High School North. ==Bibliography==