Author of Natchez Burning trilogy had battled blood cancer for decades, according to his literary agent
Greg Iles, the Mississippi author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and other works, has died. He was 65.
Iles died on Friday after a decades-long battle with the blood cancer multiple myeloma, his literary agent, Dan Conaway, posted on Saturday on Facebook.
Initially diagnosed with the incurable condition in 1996, he kept his illness private until completing his final novel, Southern Man, which was published in 2024.
Iles was born in Germany but moved to Natchez, Mississippi, with his family when he was just three years old and developed a deep connection with the region. Many of his stories are set in Mississippi, including the Natchez Burning trilogy, historical fiction suspense novels exploring race and class in the 1960s Jim Crow south.
