Michael Connelly, novelist, The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly, author of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Fifth Witness, decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing — a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.

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