The Walkaway

Scott Phillips is the author of eight novels and a collection of short stories. His first novel, the Ice Harvest, won the California Book Award silver medal for Best First Fiction, and was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for the John Creasey  and the Maccallan Daggers, for the Hammett Prize, and for the Anthony Award. It was made into a movie in 2006 starring John Cusack, , Connie Nielsen, Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Platt, directed by Harold Ramis and adapted by Richard Russo and Robert Benton. He has wrought havoc at such staid publishing houses as Ballantine/Random House, Picador (UK), Gallimard, Concord Free Press, Counterpoint Press, les éditions la Branche and others. His current home is with the wonderful people at Soho Press.