Born in Manchester, England, Ted Lewis (1940-1982) spent most of his youth in Barton-upon-Humber in the north of England. After graduating from Hull Art School, Lewis moved to London and first worked in advertising before becoming an animation specialist, working on the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. His novels are the product of his lifelong fascination with the criminal lifestyle of London’s Soho district and the down-and-out lifestyle of the English factory town. Lewis' novels pioneered the British noir school. He authored nine novels, the second of which was famously adapted in 1971 as the now iconic Get Carter, which stars Michael Caine.
Praise for Ted Lewis
"Carter is no hero, killing rival villains without compunction,
manipulating one and all (male or female) to his advantage. But he
does have a darkly contagious sense of humor, and his observing eye
is keen and mean, as always."
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
"At his best, [Lewis] achieves something only a handful of crime
writers ever do — the chilling sense of cosmic fatality that links
noir anti-heroes to the likes of Oedipus and Macbeth."
—NPR's Fresh Air
"He is an example of how dangerous writing can really be when it is
done properly, and Ted Lewis’s writing proves that he never ran
away from the page. Because with Lewis, the page was the
battle.”
—Derek Raymond, author of He Died with His Eyes Open
"Lewis remains a sharp social anatomist of the hopelessness and
soul-sucking dinginess of his era. Starting with [Get Carter],
Lewis sketched the horror of a Britain where home was the kitchen
sink, the sodden bar towel, the decrepit industrial landscape: a
kingdom from which Carter and his like cannot escape."
—Barnes and Noble Review
“Ted Lewis is one of the most influential crime novelists Britain
has ever produced, and his shadow falls on all noir fiction,
whether on page or screen, created on these isles since his
passing. I wouldn’t be the writer I am without Ted Lewis. It’s time
the world rediscovered him.”
—Stuart Neville, author of The Ghosts of Belfast
“Lewis is major.”
—Max Alan Collins, author of Road to Perdition
"Ted Lewis cuts to the bone."
—James Sallis, author of Drive
"When it comes to dealing with your actual hard man, no one does it
better than the late, great Ted Lewis."
—John Williams
"Rereading all three books, I was struck by the influence Lewis'
novels have had on so many current hard-boiled writers whose main
characters are hard cases (certainly Lee Child's Jack Reacher is a
literary son). Written in first person and present tense, Lewis'
trilogy has an immediacy that belies its age."
—Carole Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"The year's big event in international noir is the republication of
the Jack Carter Trilogy by England's Ted Lewis. Few crime writers
could inject menace and desperation into small talk the way Lewis
did, and he had a fine eye for period detail."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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