Novelist Greg Iles, ‘master of southern US gothic crime-writing’, dies aged 65 | Mississippi
Greg Iles, the Mississippi writer of the NATCHEZ Burning trilogy and other works, died. He was 65 years old.
On Friday, ILES died after a decimal war with a multiple myelom of blood cancer from Literary Agent from Conaway.
Initially in 1996, he was diagnosed with unrequited situation, and he kept his illness special until he completed his latest novel Southern Man, published in 2024.
ILES was born in Germany, but only three years old, Mississippi moved to Natchez and developed a deep connection with the region. In the 1960s, most of his stories are located in Mississippi, including the Natchez Burning trilogy in Jim Crow South, including historical fiction voltage novels.
Conaway described ILES as “warm, funny, fearless and completely sui generis”.
“When talking to the character and plot on Saturday, being on the other end of the phone, instant problem solving, will witness the genius, simple and simple,” he said. “As a writer, story, bone depth, humanity and an increasing sense of moral and political responsibility, a rotating dervish or a master watchmaker’s wild sensitivity.”
In March 2011, ILES suffered a torn aortic and partial leg amputation and spent another driver’s car in a medically stimulated coma for eight days after hitting the 61 highway near Natchez. He finally recovered.
ILES took the stage with popular writers Stephen King, Amy Tan and others with the ruins of The Rock Bottom.
A 2005 protective article on Iles described him as “South US Gothic Crime Writing Master”.
