Jim Keeble


Jim Keeble is a novelist, travel-writer and screenwriter from Cambridge, England. He now lives in London with his wife.

Biography

Keeble is an Oxford graduate. For his travel-writing, Keeble won the 1995 "Travel Writer of the Year" award at the Travelex Awards, and his book Independence Day – A voyage around America with a broken heart was one of the New [York Times]' top six travel books of the year 2000. With Dudi Appleton, Keeble began writing screenplays. The first which was filmed was A Sort Of Homecoming which was a short based and filmed in Strangford Lough in County Down. This was followed by The Most [Fertile Man in Ireland], in 1999.
In television, Keeble continued the collaboration and wrote for series such as Inspector George Gently, Silent Witness and co-created the crime drama Wild Bill. Appleton and Keeble adapted Robert van Gulik's 'Judge Dee' novels for a new Chinese-British television series. In 2024, Youku released the series, Judge Dee's Mystery.
As literary influences, Keeble states Anne Tyler, Michael Ondaatje, John Irving, Nick Hornby and Charles M. Schulz.

Filmography