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FROM: [removed]@huntleylibrary.org
REC'D: 1/19/05, 9:30 AM

A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling (or relatively
successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham in mind...
I have also included:

David Baldacci
Scott Turow
Linda Fairstein
Lisa Scottoline
Steve Martini
Richard North Patterson

(older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)

Alexander McCall Smith
Jonathan Davies
Frances Fyfield
Sir John Mortimer
Martin Edwards

I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is there one?

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org

FROM: "Robin Bradford" <[removed]@imcpl.org>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 9:41 AM

I don't know of a website, but I do know Barbara Parker was a successful
attorney. And I'm not positive, but maybe half of the Perri
O'Shaughnessy pair?

Robin

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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:28 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Bestselling Lawyers

A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling
(or relatively
successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham
in mind... I have also included:

David Baldacci
Scott Turow
Linda Fairstein
Lisa Scottoline
Steve Martini
Richard North Patterson

(older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)

Alexander McCall Smith
Jonathan Davies
Frances Fyfield
Sir John Mortimer
Martin Edwards

I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is
there one?

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 9:58 AM

[removed]@huntleylibrary.org wrote:

>I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is there one?
>
>
>
I'd also be interested in knowing about one. The only somewhat similar
site I know of is the Roster of Physician Writers:

http://hometown.aol.com/dbryantmd/index.html?f=fs

~ Molly Wms.

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Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
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FROM: "Marx, Charleen, JCL" <[removed]@jocolibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 11:36 AM

A fairly new Kansas City area author, Joel Goldman, is a lawyer who has 4 legal thrillers out. They are very popular in this neck of the woods and he is definitely on the rise.

Motion to Kill (2002)
The Last Witness (2003)
Cold Truth (2004)
Deadlocked (2005)

~Charleen

Charleen Marx
Information Services
Lackman Library
Johnson County Libraries
15345 W. 87 St. Pkwy.
Lenexa, KS 66219
913-495-7540
[removed]@jocolibrary.org





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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org on behalf of [removed]@huntleylibrary.org
Sent: Wed 1/19/2005 9:27 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Bestselling Lawyers

A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling (or relatively
successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham in mind...
I have also included:

David Baldacci
Scott Turow
Linda Fairstein
Lisa Scottoline
Steve Martini
Richard North Patterson

(older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)

Alexander McCall Smith
Jonathan Davies
Frances Fyfield
Sir John Mortimer
Martin Edwards

I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is there one?

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org

FROM: "Valerie Maine" <[removed]@vapld.info>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 1:00 PM

David Ellis is a Chicago lawyer who has written three books and has another
out in April.

Valerie Maine
Vernon Area Public Library
Lincolnshire, IL

FROM: Carol Kubala <[removed]@columbiactlibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 1:29 PM

Jillianne Hoffman has only one title under her belt but anyone who's
read Retribution knows she's an author to watch. She does have a new
book, Last Witness, slated for publishing in the spring She began her
legal career as a prosecutor with the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Saxton B. Little Free Library
319 Route 87
Columbia, CT 06237
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

[removed]@huntleylibrary.org wrote:

>A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling (or relatively
>successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham in mind...
>I have also included:
>
>David Baldacci
>Scott Turow
>Linda Fairstein
>Lisa Scottoline
>Steve Martini
>Richard North Patterson
>
>(older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)
>
>Alexander McCall Smith
>Jonathan Davies
>Frances Fyfield
>Sir John Mortimer
>Martin Edwards
>
>I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is there one?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
>Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
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>
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>

FROM: "Keddy Outlaw" <[removed]@hcpl.net>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 3:01 PM

In Texas, we have San Antonio criminal lawyer/thriller writer -- Jay
Brandon.

Keddy Ann Outlaw
Branch Librarian
West University Library
Harris County Public Library
6108 Auden Street
Houston, TX 77005

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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:28 AM

To: Fiction_L

Subject: Bestselling Lawyers

A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling (or
relatively

successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham in
mind... I have also included:

David Baldacci

Scott Turow

Linda Fairstein

Lisa Scottoline

Steve Martini

Richard North Patterson

(older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)

Alexander McCall Smith

Jonathan Davies

Frances Fyfield

Sir John Mortimer

Martin Edwards

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services

Huntley Area Public Library

[removed]@huntleylibrary.org

FROM: "Annie Haynes" <[removed]@netxv.net>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 3:23 PM

Jay Brandon is a San Antonio attorney who writes mystery novels. From
his website, www.jaybrandon.com, here is a list of his works:

. Deadbolt 1985
. Tripwire 1987
. Predator's Waltz 1989
. Fade The Heat 1990
. Rules Of Evidence 1992
. Loose Among The Lambs 1993
. Local Rules 1995
. Defiance County 1996
. Angel of Death 1998
. After-Image February 2000

An upcoming release, Grudge Match, is also mentioned.


Annie Haynes
Gilmer Memorial Library
Rocksprings, TX

FROM: [removed]@emich.edu
REC'D: 1/19/05, 3:28 PM

Robert Traver, author of "Anatomy of a Murder" and other popular books
involving lawyers and their clients, was the pseudonym of John Voelker,
a Michigan Supreme Court justice and former prosecuting attorney in the
upper peninsula.

Since many attorneys seem to write about the types of crimes that they
hear described in the courtroom, I took a glance through the chapter
"Crime in Michigan Literature" in Clarence Andrew's "Michigan in
Literature". It mentions a couple of authors who are also described as
attorneys: Robert C. Wilson (1951-), described as "a Detroit lawyer",
and William J. Coughlin, described as "a former prosecuting attorney and
federal judge".

Note that Robert C. Wilson (1951-) should not be confused with Robert
CHARLES Wilson (1953-), author of "Darwinia" and other SFnal works, nor
with the vastly entertaining but entirely different Robert ANTON Wilson.

Bradley A. Scott
Boomer librarian

FROM: "Laura Adler" <[removed]@dppl.org>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 4:19 PM

Another former lawyer who writes fiction (literary) is Paula Sharp. She's not a best-selling author, but she's thought provoking, entertaining, and definitely worth checking out.

Laura Adler
Readers' Services
Des Plaines Public Library
Opinions my own.



<<<Subject: Bestselling Lawyers
From: <[removed]@huntleylibrary.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:27:41 -0600

A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling (or relatively
successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham in mind...
I have also included:

David Baldacci
Scott Turow
Linda Fairstein
Lisa Scottoline
Steve Martini
Richard North Patterson

(older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)

Alexander McCall Smith
Jonathan Davies
Frances Fyfield
Sir John Mortimer
Martin Edwards

I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is there one?

Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
Huntley Area Public Library
[removed]@huntleylibrary.org<<<

FROM: Phil Eskew <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 4:37 PM

Here is a website that I found helpful:

http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/arl/booklists/legally.htm

You get to that by navigating through the "Mysteries & Thrillers" section
from here:

http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/readers_service/adltread.htm

Good lists galore there on many topics, by the way.

Phil

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Robin Bradford wrote:

> I don't know of a website, but I do know Barbara Parker was a successful
> attorney. And I'm not positive, but maybe half of the Perri
> O'Shaughnessy pair?
>
> Robin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
> [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of
> [removed]@huntleylibrary.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:28 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Bestselling Lawyers
>
>
> A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling
> (or relatively
> successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham
> in mind... I have also included:
>
> David Baldacci
> Scott Turow
> Linda Fairstein
> Lisa Scottoline
> Steve Martini
> Richard North Patterson
>
> (older author...Erle Stanley Gardner)
>
> Alexander McCall Smith
> Jonathan Davies
> Frances Fyfield
> Sir John Mortimer
> Martin Edwards
>
> I couldn't find a website listing the authors by this occupation....is
> there one?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Kathie Newsted, Reader Services
> Huntley Area Public Library
> [removed]@huntleylibrary.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>
> ......................................................................
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>

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- Unknown

FROM: "Bookbitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/19/05, 10:48 PM

Alafair Burke (James Lee Burke's daughter and a lawyer/law professor)
Rose Connors
Nicolas M. Kublicki (The Diamond Conspiracy)
William Landay (Mission Flats)
Phillip Margolin
Brad Meltzer
Sheldon Siegel
Simon Tolkien (Final Witness)
Andrew Vachss
James Zagel (Money to Burn)

I listed titles for authors with just one book but to be honest, only a few
of these would be considered "bestsellers".

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
"It's always a full moon at Southwest County"

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com
Giving away thirty new books this month!

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/20/05, 10:38 AM

At 09:27 AM 1/19/2005, you wrote:
>A question by a patron yesterday led me on a quest to find bestselling (or
>relatively
>successful) authors who were/are lawyers....the patron had John Grisham in
>mind...
>I have also included:

<snip>

Marginal additon: Umberto Eco studied law, but didn't complete the courses and
hence didn't practice.

Those deluded souls who believe that Francis Bacon wrote the works of
Shakespeare
presumably can add lawyer Bacon to the "best-seller" category. I don't know if
one would consider Bacon a "best-seller" in terms of his own period based on
his own real writings, but perhaps...

While we're back in the sixteenth century, the co-authors of GORBODUC, Thomas
Norton and Thomas Sackville, were I believe both lawyers; their play was the
most famous and most popular tragedy on the English stage prior to Marlowe
and Shakespeare.

Abraham Lincoln was among other things a lawyer, and given the number of times
and places the Gettysburg Address (at least) has been reprinted, he probably
qualifies as some sort of bestseller. Many/most other American politicans
have/had law degrees, and some have written (nonfiction, usually) bestsellers.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: [removed]@emich.edu
REC'D: 1/20/05, 11:47 AM

I sent this yesterday, but with an unintentionally altered subject line.
For the sake of the archives thread, I'm re-sending it with the
original subject line.

Robert Traver, author of "Anatomy of a Murder" and other popular books
involving lawyers and their clients, was the pseudonym of John Voelker,
a Michigan Supreme Court justice and former prosecuting attorney in the
upper peninsula.

Since many attorneys seem to write about the types of crimes that they
hear described in the courtroom, I took a glance through the chapter
"Crime in Michigan Literature" in Clarence Andrew's "Michigan in
Literature". It mentions a couple of authors who are also described as
attorneys: Robert C. Wilson (1951-), described as "a Detroit lawyer",
and William J. Coughlin, described as "a former prosecuting attorney and
federal judge".

Note that Robert C. Wilson (1951-) should not be confused with Robert
CHARLES Wilson (1953-), author of "Darwinia" and other SFnal works, nor
with the vastly entertaining but entirely different Robert ANTON Wilson.

Bradley A. Scott
Boomer librarian

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