John Sandford

Frequently asked questions

• What is John Sandford best known for?

  John Sandford is widely recognized for his Prey series, featuring protagonist Lucas Davenport. This series established his reputation in the crime and thriller genres.

• What is the reading order for John Sandford's books?

  The Lucas Davenport Prey series should be read in publication order to follow the character's development and ongoing storylines. He also has the Kidd series and the Virgil Flowers series, which are best read in their respective publication orders.

• Does John Sandford write under other names?

  John Sandford is the pseudonym used by John Roswell Camp. He began writing the Prey series under this name and continued to use it for subsequent novels, including later books in his Kidd series.

• Are any of John Sandford's books adapted for film or TV?

  The first book in the Prey series, Rules of Prey, was adapted into a television movie titled "Mind Prey" starring Daniel Baldwin as Lucas Davenport.

• Did John Sandford win a Pulitzer Prize?

  Yes — but as a journalist, before he began writing fiction under the Sandford pen name. Writing under his real name, John Roswell Camp, he won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for "Life on the Land: An American Farm Family," a series on the Midwest farm crisis published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He adopted the John Sandford pseudonym afterward, for the Prey novels and everything that followed.