Tucson Festival of Books

Gary Phillips


Gary Phillips has published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including "South Central Noir" and the award-winning "The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir." "Violent Spring," first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was a senior story editor on FX’s Snowfall, about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. His latest novel is "Ash Dark as Night."

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Awards: Anthony

Communities: African American


Books:
Ash Dark as Night
Mystery / Thrillers
Soho Press
April 2024
ISBN 9781641294744
312 pages

Perdition, U.S.A.
Mystery / Thrillers
Soho Press
June 2024
ISBN 9781641294416
336 pages