Ian Rankin
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Ian James Rankin (born 28th of April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer best known for his Inspector Rebus books.
Early life
Rankin was born in Cardenden, Fife. His father, James, owned a grocery store, and his mother, Isobel, worked in a school canteen. He was educated at Beath High School in Cowdenbeath. His parents were furious when he later decided to study literature at university, as they had hoped for him to study for a career. He stayed and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1982, where he also worked on a doctorate on Muriel Spark but did not complete it. He has taught at the university and has continued his affiliation with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lived in Tottenham, London, for four years and then in rural France for six years as he pursued his career as a novelist. Before becoming a full-time novelist, he worked as a grape selecter, swineher, educator, bartender, hi-fi journalist, college advisor, and punk musician in a band called the Dancing Pigs.
Personal life
He and his wife, Miranda (née Harvey), who met at university and married in 1986, and their two children, John Morgan "Jack" Harvey-Rankin (born 1994), live in Edinburgh. He has expressed appreciation for Forward Vision's Edinburgh's help with looking after Kit and other young adults with special needs. They lived in the Merchiston/Morningside area, near the authors J. K. Rowling, Alexander McCall Smith, and Kate Atkinson, before moving to a penthouse apartment in Lauriston's former Royal Infirmary house. The couple also own a house in Cromarty, Scotland's Highlands. In McCall Smith's 2004 book 44 Scotland Street, Rankin appears as a protagonist.
A series of ten book sculptures were gifted to cultural institutions and the citizens of Edinburgh in 2011. Many of the sculptures related to Rankin's work, and the eleventh sculpture was a personal gift to him.
After moving to his apartment in the quarter mile, Rankin donated his personal archives to the National Library of Scotland in 2019. The Library curated an exhibit containing highlights from the archive's 2021 exhibition, which includes research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts.
Rankin has donated a substantial amount of his earnings to charity. He and his wife established a trust in 2007 to help charities in the fields of health, art, and education. In 2020, it was announced that he had donated around £1 million to the trust in the previous five years, with £200,000 being donated in 2019. He donated three of his early creations, valued at an unprecedented first edition of three of his early works, to a book sale in aid of Christian Aid in 2022.
Career
Rankin did not set out to be a crime writer. Knots and Crosses, Hide and Seek, Robert Louis Stevenson's first books, he believed, were mainstream books, more in keeping with Scottish traditions. They were disconcerted by their categation as genre fiction. Allan Massie, a Scottish novelist who taught Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, reassured him by saying, "Do you think John Buchan ever worried about whether he was writing literature or not?"
Inspector Rebus novels by Rankin are set mainly in Edinburgh. They are considered significant contributions to the tartan noir style. Thirteen of the novels - as well as one short story - were made into a television show on ITV, starring John Hannah as Rebus in series 1 and 2 (4 episodes) and Ken Stott in series 3–five (10 episodes).
Rankin donated "Fieldwork" in 2009 to Oxfam's Ox-Tales initiative, which is four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. In the Earth collection, Rankin's tale was published.
On Radio Five Live in 2009, Rankin revealed that he will begin working on a five- or six-issue run on the comic book Hellblazer, but that he could also turn the story into a stand-alone graphic novel instead. The Vertigo Comics panel at WonderCon 2009 announced that the story would be released as a graphic novel, Dark Entries, the company's second appearance from the company's Vertigo Crime imprint.
In 2013, Rankin co-wrote the play Dark Road with Mark Thomson, the Royal Lyceum Theatre's artistic director. The performance, which marked Rankin's debut in play-writing, premiered at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre in September 2013.
Rankin became Britain's tenth best-selling author in 2005, accounting for 10% of all crime fiction sold. He also wrote under the pseudonym Jack Harvey.
Rankin assisted with the completion of a draft by William McIlvanney in 2021, a prequel that tells the tale of an early case of McIlvanney's fictional detective Jack Laid's unethical detective Jack Laid's. McIlvanney, a Rankin admires, died in 2015, leaving the book unfinished. It was released under the name The Dark Remains.
In 2022, Rankin signed an agreement with publisher Orion with whom he would produce two new John Rebus books. As part of her Birthday Honours List, he was granted a Knighthood by HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature and charity in the same year.