Scott Phillips

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Scott Phillips is the author of three of the most highly acclaimed crime novels of recent years. His debut novel, The Ice Harvest, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the California Book Award, a Silver Medal for Best First Fiction, and was a finalist for the Edgar Awards, the Hammett Prize and the Anthony Award. The book was made into a feature movie starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton and was well received by critics and fans alike.

Scott followed up the success of The Ice Harvest with The Walkaway, and his third novel, Cottonwood. Both enjoyed equal success.

Scott has also contributed his short stories to several anthologies including Paris Noir and Measures of Poison, an anthology celebrating Dennis McMillan's 25 years as a publisher of noir.

Movie pick this week is Scott Phillips’s Ice Harvest, starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton (the ugliest dude ever to share a woman with Brad Pitt) and directed by fellow Wash U (in St. Louis) alum and Ghostbuster Harold Ramis—that’s right, I was once a WU Bear. Was back in the early days.