New York Times bestselling author John Sandford visits the Iowa City Book Festival to discuss his new book, Bloody Genius. John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty- nine Prey novels, most recently Neon Prey; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; and six other books, including three young-adult novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook.

A Cedar Rapids native, Camp graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966, and a master's degree in journalism in 1971. In between he served two years in the US Army in Korea. Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1986. He will be in conversation with Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Executive Director John Kenyon.