Phillip Margolin (born 1944) is an American writer of legal thrillers.

Biography

Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. After receiving a B.A. in Government in 1965, from

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in Washington, D.C., he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in

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until 1967. He graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1970, and has worked for 25 years as a criminal defense attorney, an occupation of choice inspired by the '' Perry Mason'' books. He started to work in 1970 at the Oregon Court of Appeals. He published his first story, a short story titled "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

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, and among his favourite books '' War and Peace'' by Leo Tolstoy and ''Stone City'' by Mitchell Smith. Philip Margolin was married to Doreen Stamm in 1968. They had two children, Ami and Daniel. Doreen, also an attorney, died from cancer in January 2007. In 2018, he married Melanie Nelson.About Phillip Margolin
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Bibliography

He has also co-authored ''Vanishing Acts (Madison Kincaid Mystery)'' with his daughter

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Awards and recognitions

* 1978: nominated for an

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for best original paperback by the Mystery Writers of America for ''Heartstone'' * 1999: the short story ''The Jailhouse Lawyer'' is published in the 1999 edition of ''The Best American Mystery Stories''

Notes

External links

His homepageAuthor page at his publisher HarperCollins
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