Robert Dugoni
Robert Dugoni knows there's more to life than making money. Born into a family of what he calls overachievers, he spent 12 years as an attorney living up to family expectations and hating every moment of it. He earned a journalism degree from Stanford University and then a law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.
After the birth of his son, he decided to pursue what was really his passion and turn it into something more than a hobby: writing. He left legal practice in 1999 and began to write full-time. He completed a non-fiction book and a novel. After losing two agents (one to death and the other to a career change) and a publisher, he landed at Time-Warner Books (which would quickly thereafter become Hatchette).
His debut novel would hit the New York Times bestseller list and pave the way for his future work. Critics would compare him favorably to the early John Grisham.
In both of his first two novels, Dugoni creates attorneys whose lives are turned upside down by murders that allow them no room for personal detachment. Drawing upon his own intimate knowledge of the law and law firms, Dugoni's novels are convincing and compelling.
His success has left him without any doubts that writing is the life for him.
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