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Phillip Margolin
Born 1944
New York City, New York
Occupation Novelist
Nationality USA
Genres Legal thriller
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Phillip Margolin (born in 1944 in New York, New York) is a writer of legal thrillers. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction The legal thriller is a sub-genre of Crime fiction in which the major characters are Lawyers and their employees The City of New York

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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. The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency. Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire [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. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. Perry Mason is a fictional character a defense Attorney who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of Detective fiction authored by [2] He started to work in 1970 at the Oregon Court of Appeals. The Oregon Court of Appeals is the state intermediate appellate court in the U [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. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924 was a Polish-born English novelist War and Peace (Война и мир Voyna i mir) is a Novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( –) (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, was a Russian Writer widely regarded Mitchell Smith (born 1935 is an American Author writing Crime fiction and Science fiction. [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. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers [2] [1][2]

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. Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28 1950 is a four-time Academy Award -nominated and Golden Globe -winning American actor writer and director The Doubleday Publishing Group is the fifth largest Book Publishing company in the world 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

Awards and recognitions

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)

External links

Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and Supermodel. Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26) is an American character Actor with a deadpan face serious demeanor and flat delivery spiced with occasional sarcasm Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Dell Publishing was an American publisher of Books, Magazines, and Comic books. HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers based in New York.
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