Charles James Box Jr. (born 1958) is an American author of more than thirty novels.
Box is the author of the Joe Pickett series, as well as several stand-alone novels, and a collection of short stories.
The first novel in his Joe Pickett series, Open Season, was included in The New York Times list of "Notable Books" of 2001.
In 2021, Paramount Television Studios began production of a ten episode television adaptation of Box's Joe Pickett novels,[3] featuring actor Michael Dorman as Joe Pickett, to air exclusively on the Spectrum cable television service in the U.S.[4] The subsequent series was renewed for a second season in February 2022.
Box graduated with a degree in Mass Communications from the University of Denver.