Mississippi author Greg Iles, the best-selling writer of the "Natchez Burning" trilogy, has died at 65. Here's what we know about his life and death.

Mississippi author Greg Iles has died at 65. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Greg Iles, the Mississippi author of the “Natchez Burning” trilogy and other works, has died. He was 65. Iles died Friday after a decades-long battle with the blood cancer multiple myeloma, his literary agent Dan Conaway posted Saturday on Facebook.

Greg Iles was battling multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer, when he passed away at 65 on August 15, around 5 a.m.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (WLBT) - Greg Iles, Natchez resident and New York Times Bestselling author, has died at the age of 65. According to The Natchez Democrat, Iles died in his battle with multiple myeloma - an incurable blood cancer - at approximately 5 a.m. on Aug. 15.

Bestselling author Greg Iles dies at 65 after a private battle with cancer. His legacy of truth-telling Southern fiction lives on., Books, Times Now