Philip Greene

Philip Greene is an attorney, writer and cocktail historian. He is Trademark and Internet Counsel for the U.S. Marine Corps (Pentagon), and in 2007 held the position of InternetNZ Senior Research Fellow in Cyberlaw in 2007, Victoria University School of Law, Wellington, New Zealand. He is also one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans, and has presented at food and drink events worldwide, including the Smithsonian, the Washington Shakespeare Theatre, the Hemingway Society, the International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, the Washington Ballet, the Morgan Museum and Library in NYC, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans, and other notable institutions. Philip is also on the Board of Directors of the Museum of the American Cocktail’s Founders Board, based in New Orleans.

Phil is the author of four books, To Have and Have Another – A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, (Penguin Perigee, 2012, 2d Ed. 2015), The Manhattan: The Story of the First Modern Cocktail (2016, Sterling Epicure), A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris (October 2018, Penguin Random House/Perigee), and Cheers! Cocktails and Toasts to Celebrate Every Day of the Year (November 15, 2022). Phil is also a contributing author for the Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum (2021), and is a contributing columnist for The Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/philip-greene.html. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.