Phillip Margolin

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Phillip Margolin
Born 1944
New York City, New York
Occupation Novelist
Nationality USA
Genres Legal thriller
Official website

Phillip Margolin (born in 1944 in New York, New York) is a writer of legal thrillers.

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[edit] Biography

Phillip Margolin was born in New York City in 1944.[1] After receiving a B.A. in Government in 1965, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia until 1967.[2] He graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1970[3], and has worked for 25 years as a criminal defense attorney, an occupation of choice inspired by the Perry Mason books.[2] He started to work in 1970 at the Oregon Court of Appeals.[4]

He published his first story, The Girl in the Yellow Bikini, in 1974, and became a full-time writer in 1996. He has written 12 books as of January 2007. He lists as his favourite writer Joseph Conrad, and among his favourite books War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and Stone City by Mitchell Smith.[2]

Philip Margolin is since 1968 married to Doreen Stamm with two children, Ami and Daniel.[1] They currently live in Portland, Oregon[5]

Phillip Margolin is also the president of "Chess for Success", a non-profit organisation aimed at children to help them by learning chess.[2] [1][2]

[edit] Bibliography

Title Year Editor ISBN Remarks
The Girl in the Yellow Bikini 1974 Short story in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
Heartstone 1978 HarperTorch ISBN 978-0-06-073969-0
The Last Innocent Man 1981 HarperTorch ISBN 978-0-06-073968-3 The novel has been made into a HBO movie starring Ed Harris
Gone But Not Forgotten 1993 Doubleday ISBN 978-0-38-547002-5 Translated into more than 20 languages, sold over 1.5 million copies, made into a TV mini-series in 2004 by Warner Bros. starring Brooke Shields[1] and Scott Glenn
After Dark 1995 Doubleday ISBN 978-0-38-547548-8
The Burning Man 1996 Doubleday ISBN 978-0-38-548053-6
Smokescreen 1997 Only published in Dutch as Rookgordijn, published by Meulenhoff
The Undertaker's Widow 1998 Doubleday ISBN 978-0-38-548054-3
Angie's Delight 1998 Delacorte Press Short story in Murder For Revenge: turned into a 13 minute movie in 2006
The Jailhouse Lawyer 1998 Short story in Legal Briefs
Wild Justice 2000 HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-019624-0
The Associate 2002 HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-019625-7
Ties That Bind 2003 HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-008324-3
Sleeping Beauty 2004 HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-008326-7
Lost Lake 2005 HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-073502-3
Proof Positive 2006 HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-073505-0

[edit] Awards and recognitions

  • 1978: nominated for an Edgar Award for best original paperback by the Mystery Writers of America for Heartstone[1]
  • 1999: the short story The Jailhouse Lawyer is published in the 1999 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Crimezone interview from 2004 (in Dutch)
  2. ^ a b c d Barnes and Noble interview from 2003
  3. ^ Barnes and Noble page
  4. ^ Authorsontheweb page on Margolin
  5. ^ Crimezone page on Margolin (in Ducth)

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