| Chat with Barry Willdorf |
Barry Willdorf was born in New York City and grew up in Malden and Gloucester, MA, where he was one of the earliest surfers on the North Shore. He graduated from Colby College in 1966 with a B.A. in History and earned  a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1969. He also attended the University of Manchester in England in the mid-sixties.
Barry began his career as an investigator for the New York Legal Aid Society. In 1970, after a stint as a public defender, he founded the Southern California Military Law Project, to represent members of the armed forces court-martialed for opposition to the Vietnam War and/or racial discrimination. In 1972 he co-authored a legal self-help book for military personnel: Turning the Regs Around. Barry continued court-martial defense until 1975. In 2001, he published a semi-autobiographical novel, Bring the War Home!, fictionalizing his experiences at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton. (Currently available as a free download on Scribd.)
 Barry's legal publishing credits include co-authoring How To Pass the LSATs, Monarch Press, 1969, contributions to content in Matthew Bender, California Forms of Jury Instructions and engagement as a contributing editor for Matthew Bender's, Trial Master series. He has also has published several shorter works on the Second Amendment.
During a legal career spanning four decades, Barry has been lead counsel in well over 100 trials. He has extensive forensic experience and has often analyzed or discovered incriminating evidence of all kinds. His practice has run the gamut from every type of criminal offense to civil fraud, medical and legal malpractice, securities violations and complex real estate schemes. He enjoys the highest attorney rating (AV) given by Martindale and Hubbell. In 2005, the San Francisco AIDS Legal Referral Panel named him "Attorney of the Year". He has been an acting judge and a certified arbitrator for many years. Barry draws on all of this education, training and experience to craft his fiction.
This summer, Barry received a Global E-Book Award (best historical literature) for his novel,The Flight of the Sorceress. (Wild Child Publishing, 2010.) He is currently a finalist for a "best historical novel" award for 2012 from the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition (EPIC). Set in the fifth century, The Flight of the Sorceress, recounts how the newly-empowered Roman Catholic Church combined with the Roman Imperial government to wage religious war against women, pagans, dissenters and "heretics".
Barry's most recent novel, Burning Questions, (Whiskey Creek Press, August 1, 2011) is the first part of the "1970s trilogy". Based on an actual homicide, as well as the author's recollections of growing up in Gloucester MA, Burning Questions is a mystery-thriller involving teenage suicide, corrupt real estate dealings and class prejudice. Part Two, A Shot In The Arm, is presently in editing for publication. Barry is a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, The Blackpoint Writers Group and is represented by The Krista Goering Literary Agency. He and his wife Bonnie live in San Francisco. For Part One of the 1970s Trilogy, Burning Questions, click on http://1970strilogy.blogspot.com/. For the award winning historical novel, The Flight of the Sorceress click http://flightofthesorceress.blogspot.com/.
For further information about the author and his work, log on to: http://agauchepress.com/.
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