Robert Whitlow
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Robert Whitlow is a film-maker and a best-selling author of eight 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
, The List, was made into a movie
starring Malcolm McDowell
.
In 2010, Whitlow's second novel, The Trial, a film based upon Whitlow's Christy Award Winning book The Trial, and directed by Gary Wheeler
, was produced as a movie. The screenplay for the movie The Trial was written by Mark Freiburger
. The movie starred Matthew Modine
, Nikki Deloach
, Robert Forster
, Clare Carey
and Bob Gunton
Robert Whitlow is also a practicing attorney and lives in North Carolina.
After The List was published, he wrote The Trial, which won a Christy Award
in 2001. He has continued to write ever since then.
Christy Award
The Christy Awards are awarded each year to recognize novels of excellence written from a Christian worldview. Awards are given in several genres, including contemporary , historical, romance , suspense, and visionary...
for Contemporary Fiction, for his novel The Trial.
His debut novel
Debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...
, The List, was made into a movie
The List (film)
The List is a 2007 American independent feature film that was released nationwide on DVD June 11, 2008. It is based on the novel of the same name by author Robert Whitlow. The film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina...
starring Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years.McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films If...., O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange and Caligula...
.
In 2010, Whitlow's second novel, The Trial, a film based upon Whitlow's Christy Award Winning book The Trial, and directed by Gary Wheeler
Gary Wheeler
Gary Wheeler born 30 September 1989 in England is a rugby league player for St. Helens in the engage Super League.Gary Wheeler's position of choice is as a stand-off, but has currently played most of his senior rugby at centre....
, was produced as a movie. The screenplay for the movie The Trial was written by Mark Freiburger
Mark Freiburger
Stephen Mark Freiburger is an American filmmaker. Freiburger grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, attending Providence High School and the North Carolina School of the Arts. At 22, Freiburger produced and directed his first feature, Dog Days of Summer...
. The movie starred Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...
, Nikki Deloach
Nikki DeLoach
Ashlee Nicole DeLoach is an American actress known as Nikki DeLoach.-Life and career:DeLoach was born in Waycross, Georgia. DeLoach was a member of the Georgia 4-H Performing Arts group Clovers & Company from 1991 to 1994. She then joined the The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1993.In 1998, she became a...
, Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace...
, Clare Carey
Clare Carey
Clare Carey is a film and television actress.-Background:Carey was born at a Catholic mission in Zimbabwe where her father and mother were serving...
and Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton
Robert Patrick "Bob" Gunton, Jr. is an American actor. He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, and President Juan Peron in the original...
Robert Whitlow is also a practicing attorney and lives in North Carolina.
Writing career
Before Robert Whitlow wrote his first novel, best-selling The List, he had no ambition whatsoever to write. He woke one morning thinking about how people don't realise how much the past influences the present. While driving to work that morning, an idea for a novel regarding this subject came to mind. That night, he mentioned it to his wife, Kathy, who said "You should write it!" So he did.After The List was published, he wrote The Trial, which won a Christy Award
Christy Award
The Christy Awards are awarded each year to recognize novels of excellence written from a Christian worldview. Awards are given in several genres, including contemporary , historical, romance , suspense, and visionary...
in 2001. He has continued to write ever since then.
Novels
- The List (2000)
- The Trial (2001)
- The Sacrifice (2002)
- Life Support (2003)
- Life Everlasting (2004)
- Jimmy (2005)
- Mountain Top (2006)
- Deeper Water (novel) (2008)
- Higher Hope (novel) (2009)
- Greater Love (novel) (2010)
- Water's Edge (novel) (2011)