Miss Jackson.The author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and other works, Greg Iles, from Mississippi, passed away. He was sixty-five.
After fighting multiple myeloma for decades, Iles passed away on Friday, according to a Facebook post made by his literary agent Dan Conaway on Saturday.
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He kept his sickness a secret until finishing his last book, Southern Man, which was released in 2024. He was first diagnosed with the incurable ailment in 1996.
Iles was born in Germany, but at the age of three, his family relocated to Natchez, Mississippi, where he formed a close bond with the locals. The Natchez Burning trilogy and other historical fiction suspense books that examine race and class in the Jim Crow South of the 1960s are among the many of his works that are set in Mississippi.
Iles was kind, humorous, bold, and totally unique, according to Conaway.
Simply put, he wrote on Saturday, “To be on the other end of the phone as he talked through character and plot, problem-solving on the fly, was to witness genius at work.” As a writer, he combined the fierce accuracy of a spinning dervish or a master watchmaker with storycraft, a deep sense of humanity, and a developing sense of moral and political duty.
Iles was struck by another driver on Highway 61 in Natchez in March 2011, resulting in a ruptured aorta, partial limb amputation, and eight days in a medically induced coma. After a while, he recovered.
Alongside well-known writers Stephen King, Amy Tan, and others, Iles played with the musical ensemble The Rock Bottom Remainders.
