Background
Joe Ide was born about 1958 in Los Angeles, California, United States. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles. His family was poor. His mother was a secretary and his father worked at a community center.
2017
Joe Ide in 2017.
2017
3555 Rosecrans St Suite #107, San Diego, CA 92110, United States
Joe Ide with Timothy Hallinan Mysterious Galaxy BookStore in 2017.
2017
Joe Ide with the Anthony Award which he received in 2017.
2018
Joe Ide with Nils Lofgren in October 2018.
2019
Joe Ide with Gregg Hurwitz at the Los Angeles Book Festival in 2019.
2019
Joe Ide with Wallace Stroby in October 2019.
Joe Ide at the Vancouver Writer's Fest.
Joe Ide with Michael Robotham and Paul Cleaves at the Vancouver Writer's Fest.
Joe Ide with his cousin Ben Winters at Diesel Books in Brentwood.
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Joe Ide in Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, United States
Joe Ide with Stephen Mack Jones in Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
Joe Ide with his brothers.
Joe Ide at the age of nineteen.
Joe Ide as a baby
Joe Ide with his brother.
Joe Ide in Los Angeles.
(IQ is a book series consisting of four books, IQ (2016), ...)
IQ is a book series consisting of four books, IQ (2016), Righteous (2017), Wrecked (2018), and Hi Five (2020). A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch.
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Joe Ide was born about 1958 in Los Angeles, California, United States. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles. His family was poor. His mother was a secretary and his father worked at a community center.
An unconcerned student at school, Joe Ide went on to university and received a graduate degree in education.
Joe Ide began his career as a school teacher, grades four to six, and he discovered a little belatedly that he didn’t like kids. So that lasted a semester and he was out of there. And he had a series of what he calls semi-careers. He was a teacher at a university, a business consultant, and a manager of an apartment building that was rented by mostly poor immigrants. Somewhere along the line, he began writing screenplays. He wrote screenplays for a number of major studios but none of the projects came to fruition. Then he quit and moped around for a long time.
Rather than scurrying back to human resources, however, Ide decided to take on an even more challenging career: that of a novelist. He quickly figured out what he wanted to write about. He published his debut novel, IQ (2016), about an unlicensed, underground detective; a character inspired by his early experiences and love of Sherlock Holmes. The book centers around Ide’s Holmes character, Isaiah Quintabe, a young African-American genius who falls into solving problems, and mysteries, for his friends and neighbors in Long Beach. In IQ, the author put all his knowledge and love to good use.
The next year his second book, the sequel to the first book, Righteous (2017) was published. The novel reveals new sides to IQ and his life in the gang-plagued neighborhoods of East Long Beach. Righteous is a tale of two mysteries told in a series of flashbacks. In Wrecked (2018), Ide covers new ground with his lovable, unconventional hero, Isaiah Quintabe. Isaiah has never been more successful, and yet he’s desperately lonely and isolated. Thankfully, he finds love with a young painter hiding from her dark past and searching for her long-lost mother. But the painter is connected with a dangerous paramilitary operation, and the risks have never been greater. Ide's most recent book is Hi Five (2020).
(IQ is a book series consisting of four books, IQ (2016), ...)
In childhood, Joe Ide's favorite books were Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him.
He's a great fan of stand-up comedians, even when he was a kid. He listened to Moms Mabley, Redd Foxx, Freddie Prince, and George Carlin.
His favorite part of the writing process is rewriting.
His biggest influence is Elmore Leonard. He loves his quirky, low-life characters and how real they feel. He loves how they lead the plot instead of the other way around. He loves his mixture of pathos and comedy. Other influences include John LeCarre, Walter Mosley, Hunter S. Thompson, William Styron, Chester Himes, William Gibson, and more others.
Quotations:
"Wherever I was, whatever context I was in, I listen to how people talk. I think all of that plays a part of the dialogue in the book."
"I feel like everything I've done in my life has led to this. I couldn't have written my books any sooner."
"There is no established writer out there who hasn’t taken years to master their craft."
"I was a screenwriter before I wrote the book, so I had some grounding in writing. But when I started to write long-form prose, I discovered that I was just terrible!"
"Dreams may not be connected to reality."
"Follow the gifts that already yours and make a dream out of those."
Joe Ide's friends were black when he was young, and he co-opted their speech, style, attitudes, and musical tastes.
Quotes from others about the person
"Joe Ide is the best new discovery I've come across in a long time." - Michael Connelly
"Joe Ide is the best new writer I've encountered in recent years." - John Sandford
"Ide's voice is assured and authentic." - Peter Spiegelman
"Joe Ide has that rarest of writerly skills - a wholly unique voice, one that is at once irreverent and compelling, moving and incisive." - Gregg Hurwitz
Joe Ide met his future wife while a student.