C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of more than twenty-two novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Blue Heaven, as well as the Anthony Award, the French Prix Calibre .38, the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award (twice), the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and the 2017 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Western. His novels have been translated into twenty-seven languages and millions of copies of his novels have been sold in the United States alone. Open Season, Blue Heaven, Nowhere to Run, and The Highway have been optioned for film and television.
A Wyoming native, Box has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a newspaper reporter and editor, and he owned an international tourism marketing firm with his wife, Laurie. In 2008, Box was awarded the BIG WYO Award from Wyoming’s Hospitality and Travel Coalition. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden horseback, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo and is currently serving on the Wyoming Tourism Board.
C. J. Box is the award-winning creator of the Joe Pickett series. Born in Wyoming, he worked as a reporter, surveyor, ranch hand, and fishing guide before he began writing fiction. In Open Season (2001), Box introduced Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden and expert outdoorsman who fights corruption on the plains. The novel was a success, winning the Gumshoe Award and spawning an ongoing series that has now stretched to twelve novels, including Force of Nature (2012) and the Edgar Award–winning Blue Heaven (2009).
Box co-owns a tourism marketing firm with his wife, Laurie, and in 2008 won the BIG WYO award for his efforts to bring visitors to his home state. Box is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. A lover of the outdoors, he has traveled across the American West on foot, horse, and skis. He lives in Wyoming with his family.
