Kim Wozencraft is the author of the internationally best-selling novel, Rush, which was made into a feature film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric. Her screen adaptation of her critically acclaimed novel, Notes from the Country Club, is currently in pre-production. Norman Mailer called her book, The Catch, "the best novel I've read ...
Her novel "The Catch" earned rave reviews from many acclaimed novelists and filmmakers : Edward Bunker, William Friedkin, Norman Mailer, Oliver Stone, James Ellroy, Gerald Petievich and Michael Mann among others.
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Kim Wozencraft is a former undercover narcotics agent. She and her partner's exploits while employed by the Tyler, Texas Police Department are the inspiration behind her book, "Rush". Both Kim and her partner were eventually convicted of Federal civil rights crimes for making false drug cases against a number of people in Tyler. Both spent time in federal prison. Prior to going to prison in 982, she and her partner (Craig Matthews) were married. This story was presented as a segment on ABC TV's 20/20, with Tom Jarrell, which aired in January of 1982.