Robert Whitlow

Robert Whitlow is a film-maker and a best-selling author of fifteen legal thrillers. He is also a contributor to a short story The Rescuers, a story included in the book What The Wind Picked Up by The ChiLibris Ring. In 2001, he won the Christy Award for Contemporary Fiction, for his novel The Trial. His debut novel was made into a movie of the same title,The List, starring Malcolm McDowell. In 2010, Whitlow's second film,The Trial, based upon Whitlow's Christy Award Winning book of the same name, was directed by Gary Wheeler. The screenplay for the movie was written by Mark Freiburger. The movie starred Matthew Modine, Nikki Deloach, Robert Forster, Clare Carey and Bob GuntonA third movie, Jimmy was released in 2013 starring Ian Colletti, Ted Levine, Kelly Carlson, Patrick Fabian and Stelio Savante. Robert Whitlow received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, is a practicing attorney, and lives in North Carolina.