They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.Īfter graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat.
Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. “If at first encounter Connelly seems primarily an exceptionally accomplished writer of crime novels, at closer examination he is also a mordant and knowing chronicler of the world in which crime takes place, i.e., our world.” -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post There’s always something deadly serious behind Connelly’s entertaining courtroom high jinks.” ―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times “Haller is the kind of slick, cynical showman who can’t resist making high drama out of every legal procedure. . . .
This is not only a portrait of Mickey Haller, but a fascinating look at the award-winning crime novelist who created him, along with Harry Bosch and other unforgettable characters. He reveals the lawyers, both fictional and real-life, who played a role in shaping the sharp-witted attorney who does his best work in the back seat-and the librarian who planted the seeds of his future literary career in the steamy, sticky Florida of his childhood. In this concise, absorbing account, Michael Connelly reveals the work-and the strokes of luck-that contributed to his creation of the character Mickey Haller, the subject of multiple bestselling novels as well as the hit Netflix series. The #1 New York Times –bestselling author tells the origin story of LA defense attorney Mickey Haller.
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