Occupation Novelist, Attorney Name Robert Whitlow | Role Film maker Movies The Trial | |
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Genre Christian fiction, Legal thriller Education Furman University, University of Georgia School of Law Books Deeper Water: A Tides of T, Life Everlasting, The sacrifice, Greater Love, Higher Hope: Tides of T Similar People Gary Wheeler, Mark Freiburger, Matthew Modine | ||
Q&A with author Robert Whitlow--THE LIST
Robert Whitlow is a film-maker and a best-selling author of fifteen legal thrillers. He is also a contributor to a short story The Rescuers, a story included in the book What The Wind Picked Up by The ChiLibris Ring. In 2001, he won the Christy Award for Contemporary Fiction, for his novel The Trial.
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His debut novel, The List, was made into a movie starring Malcolm McDowell.
In 2010, Whitlow's second novel, The Trial, a film based upon Whitlow's Christy Award Winning book The Trial, and directed by Gary Wheeler, was produced as a movie. The screenplay for the movie The Trial was written by Mark Freiburger. The movie starred Matthew Modine, Nikki Deloach, Robert Forster, Clare Carey and Bob Gunton
Robert Whitlow received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, is a practicing attorney, and lives in North Carolina.
Writing career
Before Robert Whitlow wrote his first novel, best-selling The List, he had no ambition whatsoever to write. He woke one morning thinking about how people don't realise how much the past influences the present. While driving to work that morning, an idea for a novel regarding this subject came to mind. That night, he mentioned it to his wife, Kathy, who said "You should write that!" So he did.
After The List was published, he wrote The Trial, which won a Christy Award in 2001. He has continued to write ever since then.
Christian novelist William Sirls has been influenced by the work of Robert Whitlow.