Two Regardies Magazine awards for Short Fiction James Grady (born April 30, 1949) is an American writer and investigative journalist known for his thriller novels on espionage, intrigue, and police procedurals, as well as his screenwriting work for TV shows with Stephen J. Cannell and film work with Brandon Lee, William Katt and David Hasselhoff.

Grady describes a pivotal six-month period during his junior year of high school when his father was unemployed.

During that time, his mother took on a job as an Assistant Librarian for Toole County in Shelby, which he credits as a significant influence on his personal development.

He studied with poet Richard Hugo and was a Sears Congressional Journalism Intern from January to April 1971, assigned to the D.C. staff of U.S.

Grady lovingly credits his four college summers working on his hometown Shelby, MT's city road, water and sewer crew with both letting him pay his own way through university and increasing the scope and depth of his education.