Charles P. Lickson

My undergraduate years at Johns Hopkins (BA in Political Science) led me to my first fact-based fiction book, WARRIOR OF MANY FACES. My senior thesis at Hopkins was on Castro's Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine. After law school (at Georgetown Law), clerking for a federal judge in Washington, serving in the U.S. Army, then a corporate law assignment, I entered private law practice. Fifteen years of Army law and private practice (in Connecticut and several federal courts) was enough.

A move to Virginia followed and after an in-house law assignment, I decided on a less adversarial - more collaborative problem solving approach and became a mediator. Originally certified by the Virginia Supreme and after a few years, I became a Co-Founder and Fellow of the International Association of Mediators.

I conducted mediations of different cases and training programs for hundreds of erstwhile mediators in private organizations and government agencies at the federal, state and local level.

Finally, I have landed on a full time writing career. Writing has always been in my future. It started with a magazine article for the ABA Student Lawyer Journal while I was in the Army. Many articles later (in a variety of publications in both legal and lay journals), I wrote my first book on Ethics for Government Employees.. Unfortunately, it was not a big seller. Later, book have been much better sellers.

Today, I write on a variety of topics never losing sight of my legal and conflict solving background. Some of my writing today is with fellow author and wife, Bryane Miller Lickson.