James Renner

James Renner is an American investigative reporter and film producer. He is from Cleveland, Ohio. He is a former writer for the Cleveland Scene and editor of the alternative newspaper, The Independent. He was also a founding member of Last Call Cleveland. He is a graduate of Kent State University.

In the December 2004 issue of Cleveland Magazine, he was named one of the city's 30 most interesting people.

In 2004, Renner directed an adaptation of Stephen King's short story, "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away." King granted Renner the rights to adapt this story as part of his Dollar Baby program for aspiring filmmakers. It was an official selection at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival.

In October 2006, Gray & Co. released a book by Renner about his two-year-long investigation into the 1989 unsolved abduction/murder of 10 year-old Amy Mihaljevic. The title of the book is Amy: My Search for Her Killer.

In July 2009, Renner released a documentary titled, "Catching Salinger", online, in serialized form. The documentary is about reclusive author J.D. Salinger and the influences behind his famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

Renner's first novel, The Man From Primrose Lane, was published by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in March 2012.

In January 2011, Renner announced his plans to delve into the Disappearance of Maura Murray, a nursing student at University of Massachusetts Amherst who went missing after a one car accident in Haverhill, New Hampshire.