Hugh Anthony Levine

Authors who lead colorful lives tend to write colorful books. Take Ernest Hemingway, whose novels draw upon his own kaleidoscopic life as a journalist, war correspondent, world traveler, big-game hunter, big-game fisherman, bon vivant. HUGH ANTHONY LEVINE would be the first to acknowledge he's no Hemingway, yet brings to his own writings -- two novels and two true-crime books -- his not-dissimilar background as a country boy from rural New Jersey who became a homicide prosecutor in Manhattan and San Francisco followed by a long career as a highly regarded criminal defense lawyer, all while touring scores of countries, flying gliders at soaring sites across America, skippering his sportfishing boats off California's coast, even tackling and subduing an escaping double murderer.

Married, with two adult children, he lives in a suburb of San Francisco and enjoys saltwater flyfishing, biking, hiking, cooking and travel.