Andrew Grant is the younger brother of bestselling thriller writer <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL34328A/" target="_blank">Lee Child</a> ( pen name of James Dover Grant). After graduating from the University of Sheffield, where he studied Drama and English Literature, Grant founded a theatre company that produced original material, culminating with a critically successful appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.He later went on to spend fifteen years working in telecommunications before leaving the corporate world to become a novelist.
His debut novel, *Even, featuring David Trevellyan, a royal Naval intelligence officer, received stars from both Library Journal and Publishers Weekly*.
On 18 January 2020, Lee Child announced that Andrew would take over as writer of the Jack Reacher novels, writing under the pen name of Andrew Child. The two brothers intend to write the next few novels together after which Andrew Grant will "strike out on his own".
Andrew is married to novelist <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1394920A" target="_blank">Tasha Alexander</a>, and the couple live on a nature preserve near Laramie, Wyoming.
