We know him as John Sandford, but that’s his nom de plume. As journalist John Camp, he won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his

The writer John Sandford (USA) by Beowulf Sheehan, July 9, 2015, New York, New York. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan

five-part series about an American farm family faced with an agricultural crisis.

John eventually channeled his writing talent to fiction, and by now, has penned ten novels featuring Virgil Flowers; and another series, the Prey novels, involving Lucas Davenp...