Lucas Davenport - Personal

Personal

Born and raised Catholic, Davenport has a strong interest in reading, poetry and war gaming. As the series develops, Davenport exhibits a number of anxiety disorders, including mood depression and chronic fear of flying on fixed wing aircraft. He received psychological help from a nun professionally trained as a counselor, whom he knew as a local girlfriend when they were both children. The nun sometimes offered him profiles of unknown criminals in the early books.

Davenport refers to himself as a Democrat. He has three children: Sarah (with reporter Jennifer Carey), Sam (with surgeon Weather Karkinnen), and Letty (adopted after her mother was killed) with a fourth, a daughter, expected.

World-leading authority on Davenport, author John Sandford, in June 2002 told The New York Post that he first thought of Davenport as a sociopath: "He had a problem with women. Even when he was in a relationship, he'd some women. But then he changed, mellowed out ... . I want him to have a happy ending. I don't want him to wind up a bitter, lonely guy."

In September 2004, he told the Budapest newspaper Vasárnapi Hírek: "I've always thought of him as a kind of sociopath who is slightly warped. Of course, Davenport changed a lot throughout the stories, he became calmer... " Later, the promiscuous young Davenport was presented as a married man because "I wanted to show that Davenport is capable of love and he doesn't just collect women, like in the beginning." Both statements appear in the www.johnsandford.org website.