| Jonathan Seth Kellerman was born in New York City, | | | | Over the Edge (1987) |
| New York on August 9,1949 but primarily grew up in | | | | Silent Partner (1989) |
| Los Angeles, California. His parents were David and | | | | Time Bomb (1990) |
| Sylvia Kellerman. | | | | Private Eyes (1991) |
| Jonathan earned his B.A. in psychology from UCLA. | | | | Devil's Waltz (1992) |
| He earned his Doctorate in Child Psychology from the | | | | Bad Love (1993) |
| University of Southern California when he was only 24 | | | | Self Defense (1994) |
| years old. To support himself while a student, he | | | | The Web (1995) |
| worked at the university newspaper, "The Daily Bruin," | | | | The Clinic (1996) |
| as a cartoonist. In his senior year, Jonathan won a | | | | Survival of the Fitness (1997) |
| Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for fiction. | | | | Monster (1999) |
| While at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, | | | | Doctor Death (2000) |
| Jonathan researched and wrote two medical texts, | | | | Flesh and Blood (2001) |
| "Psychological Aspects of Childhood Cancer" in 1980, | | | | The Murder Book (2002) |
| and "Helping the Fearful Child" in 1981. | | | | A Cold Heart (2003) |
| Jonathan married Faye Mauder and they produced | | | | Therapy (2004) |
| four children, Jesse, Rachel, Ilana and Aliza. He worked | | | | Rage (2005) |
| as a professor and a clinician for ten years before he | | | | Gone (2006) |
| started a writing career in psychological suspense | | | | Obsession (2007) |
| thrillers. He published his first novel, "When the Bough | | | | Compulsion (2008) |
| Breaks," in 1985. This book starts a series of books | | | | Bones (2008) |
| with psychologist Alex Delaware as the protagonist. | | | | Evidence (2009) |
| Jonathan says that Alex is his alter ego. | | | | Deception (2010) |
| Jonathan is not the only talent in the family. Faye | | | | Petra Connor: |
| Kellerman, is also a published suspense writer since | | | | Billy Straight (1998) |
| 1986. She, along with youngest daughter, Aliza, | | | | Twisted (2004) |
| co-authored a book in 2009, called "Prism." The oldest | | | | Stand Alone Novels: |
| son, Jesse has also established himself as a published | | | | The Butcher's Theater (1988) |
| novelist. | | | | The Conspiracy Club (2003) |
| In an interview for Armchair Detective, when asked | | | | True Detective (2009) |
| why he writes such chilling crime novels, Jonathan said, | | | | Omnibus: |
| "We want fear, but we want the resolution. You build | | | | Blood Test, When the Bough Breaks, Over the Edge |
| up tension and then there's a relief. If there is no | | | | (1990) |
| resolution, people wouldn't want it. It's like tying a knot | | | | Jonathan Kellerman Omnibus (1996) |
| around your knees, then it feels so wonderful when | | | | The First Alex Delaware (2001) |
| you take it off. I know how to create fear because I'm | | | | Devil's Waltz, Bad Love (2003) |
| a coward." He say he will continue to write these | | | | Double Homicide (2004) (with Faye Kellerman) |
| books as long as people want to buy them. | | | | Capital Crimes (2006) (with Faye Kellerman) |
| Jonathan and Faye are the first married couple to | | | | Poetry: |
| have novels on the New York Best Sellers List at the | | | | Daddy, Daddy, Can You Touch the Sky? (1994) |
| same time. They make their homes in Los Angles, | | | | Anthologies Edited: |
| California and Santa Fe, New Mexico. | | | | Diagnosis Dead: A Mystery Writers of America |
| Books by Jonathan Kellerman: | | | | Anthology (2004) |
| Series: | | | | Non Fiction: |
| Alex Delaware: | | | | The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (2008) (with |
| When the Bough Breaks (1985) | | | | Thomas H. |
| Blood Test (1986) | | | | |