George V. Higgins (1939–1999) was a lawyer, a journalist, a teacher, and the author of twenty-nine books, including the bestsellers Bomber’s Law, Trust, and Kennedy for the Defense. His groundbreaking crime novel, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, was the basis for a 1973 Robert Mitchum film of the same name. A reporter for the Providence Journal and the Associated Press, Higgins earned a law degree from Boston College Law School and later taught creative writing at Boston University.
Photograph from the George V. Higgins Archive, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2019–2020