詹姆斯·弗雷

詹姆斯·克里斯托弗·弗雷（James Christopher Frey，1969年9月12日—）是一位美国作家和商人。他的一些作品内容被指是夸大或捏造的。 他有作品被梦工厂改编成名为猎杀第四行者的电影。他还是一家总部位于纽约的电子竞技组织的首席执行官。

James Christopher Frey ( FRY; born September 12, 1969) is an American writer and fabulist. His first two books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), were bestsellers marketed as memoirs. Large parts of the books were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated, sparking a media controversy. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was similarly a bestseller.

Frey is the founder and CEO of Full Fathom Five. A transmedia production company, FFF is responsible for Lorien Legacies, a young adult adventure/science fiction series of seven books written by Frey and others, under the collective pen name Pittacus Lore. Frey's first book of the series, I Am Number Four (2010), was made into a feature film by DreamWorks Pictures. Frey is also the CEO of NYXL, an esports organization based in Manhattan, New York.

Background

Frey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He majored in English and film at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Career

Frey wrote the screenplays to the films Kissing a Fool (1998) and Sugar: The Fall of the West (1998), the latter of which he directed. Doubleday published A Million Little Pieces in April 2003, which Frey wrote and marketed as a memoir of drug addiction, crime, and an eventual journey to sobriety. Initial reception was mostly positive and Amazon.com editors selected it as their favorite book of the year. He followed it with the sequel My Friend Leonard in 2005. The second book centered on the father-son relationship which Frey formed with his friend Leonard. The two met at a Hazelden addiction treatment program. My Friend Leonard was published in June 2005 by Riverhead Books and was a bestseller. Significant parts of the two books, initially promoted as factual, later were revealed to have been invented by Frey (see § Controversy).

Despite the uproar, Frey signed a new three-book, seven-figure deal in late 2007 with HarperCollins to release a novel Bright Shiny Morning, published May 13, 2008. Bright Shiny Morning appeared on the New York Times bestseller list however it received mixed reviews. The New York Times' Janet Maslin, who had been one of Frey's detractors, gave the book a rave review. In 2011, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, depicted as "the last book of the Bible" was released on Good Friday, April 22, 2011. Frey self-published e-editions of the book. A self-professed atheist, Frey suggested the work has reflected his attempt to write about a god he "might actually believe in." In August 2012, he published "A Moving Story," chronicling the workplace organizing of a New York moving company, on Libcom, a website. In collaboration with Jocelyn Cohn, he wrote two stories on Libcom: "Against Transparency", questioning the need for budgetary transparency and "Silencing America’s Radical History: Where Do We Go From Here?", critiqued a panel at New School University in Lower Manhattan, New York.

On October 7, 2014, Endgame: The Calling, the first book in a trilogy of novellas by Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton, was published by HarperCollins. It was turned into an augmented reality game by Google's Niantic Labs, and 20th Century Fox bought the movie rights. The novella is about aliens creating human life on Earth and 12 ancient lines which are destined to train a player to fight to the death for the survival of their line once "Endgame" begins. The book series was said to have clues, which would lead one lucky winner to a cash prize. On November 18, 2015, Frey released "Black Knight Decoded," a fictional narrative imagining a conspiracy involving the Black Knight satellite legend. Frey was credited as the writer. In 2019, he co-developed the story for the film Queen & Slim (2019), which Lena Waithe turned into a screenplay.