Richard T. Kelly
Richard T. Kelly is a British novelist and writer best known for his 2016 political thriller The Knives.Career
Kelly began his career writing in film and wrote several film related books. In 1998 he wrote Alan Clarke, a book on the filmmaker Alan Clarke. In 2000 he published The Name of this Book is Dogme 95, a look at the Danish film movement Dogme 95 created by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. In 2004 he wrote an authorized biography of actor Sean Penn called .
Kelly made his fictional debut with the 2008 novel Crusaders. Shortly after, in 2009, he began research on a political thriller that would develop into The Knives. His second novel followed in 2011. The Knives was published in 2016.
Since 2008 Kelly has been a Contributing Editor and for the UK edition of Esquire magazine.
