David Ellis is a lawyer and the Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for Best First Novel for Line of Vision. Ellis attended Northwestern Law School and began his legal career in private practice in Chicago in 1993. He served as the House Prosecutor who tried and convicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich in the Impeachment Trial before the Illinois Senate. He was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court in 2014 and took office December 1, 2014. Ellis currently lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children. Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
He pursued dual careers as a doctor (he worked on the development of penicillin) and a ballet dancer (he danced with the Rambert School and later became its Associate Director, and married Marie Ramberts daughter).
All art requires is courage and the commitment to eat lots of biscuits. D Ellis / 2016.
