






 | BIOGRAPHY
John Knoerle was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1949 and migrated to
California with his family in the 1960s. He has worked as a stand-up comic,
a voiceover actor and a radio reporter. He wrote the screenplay for “Quiet
Fire,” which starred Karen Black and Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, and the stage
play “The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club,” an LA Time’s Critics Choice. John also
worked as a writer for Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”
Knoerle’s first novel, “Crystal Meth Cowboys,” published in 2003, was
optioned by Fox TV. His second novel, “The Violin Player,” won the Mayhaven
Award for Fiction. Knoerle is currently at work on “The American Spy
Trilogy.” Book One, “A Pure Double Cross,” came out in 2008. Book Two, “A
Despicable Profession,” was published in August of 2010.
John Knoerle currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Judie.
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