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WORK TITLE: Cotton: A Novel
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BIRTHDATE: 4/19/1959
WEBSITE: http://www.pauljheald.com/
CITY: Champaign
STATE: IL
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https://www.law.illinois.edu/faculty/profile/paulheald * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_J._Heald * https://www.law.illinois.edu/content/faculty/vitae/PaulHeald.pdf?111416102537
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PERSONAL
Born April 19, 1959, in Evanston, IL; married Jill Crandall (a chorus director).
EDUCATION:Graduated from the University of Chicago.
ADDRESS
CAREER
University of Georgia School of Law, professor, c. 1989-2011; University of Illinois, Champaign, Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law, 2011–. Fellow and associated researcher at CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, the University of Glasgow. Former clerk in Montgomery, Alabama, for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson Jr. Has lectured and taught at numerous universities in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bournemouth and London, England; Lyon, France; and Regensburg, Germany; and at the University of Chicago, University of Texas, and Vanderbilt University. Ran the UGA/OSU program at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, during the spring of 2009. Herbert Smith Visitor at Cambridge University in 2012.
AVOCATIONS:Singing
MEMBER:Red Herring fiction workshop.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Paul J. Heald was born in 1959 in Evanston, Illinois. Since 2011 he has been the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. Prior to assuming his position at the University of Illinois, Heald was a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law for twenty-two years. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities around the world. When not teaching or writing, Heald likes to sing in choruses.
A Death in Eden and Cotton
In 2014 Heald published his first novel, A Death in Eden, the first in the “Clarkeston Chronicles” series, which is set in small-town Georgia. Stanley Hopkins is a professor at a small college who takes some time off to finish a law thesis on workplace dynamics for women. A friend is willing to help him out by letting him interview the women who work for him, but it turns out that the friend is in the pornography industry. When one of the women is killed and his friend is arrested, he convinces Stanley to try to play detective and find out who killed the woman. A reviewer on the Errant Reviews Web site felt the book was lacking and wrote: “The characters are fairly universally unlikable. There’s little tension involved; the proper pacing for a thrilling mystery just isn’t there.”
Reviewers were kinder to Heald’s second book, Cotton, in which a group of amateur detectives try to solve the five-year-old disappearance of two college students in Clarkeston. When reporter James Murphy, who was assigned to the original story, finds some recently published photos online of one of the victims, he contacts law clerk Melanie Wilkerson. She, in turn, asks Stanley Hopkins, from A Death in Eden, to assist in the case. A Publishers Weekly reviewer wrote: “The action builds to an ingeniously satisfying resolution.”
Courting Death
Melanie Wilkerson returns in Courting Death, in which she teams up with fellow lawyers Arthur Hughes and Phil Jenkins to investigate the mysterious death five years earlier of a young woman, while Arthur looks into the appeals of two prisoners: a famous serial killer and a child murderer. The lawyers are confronted with the inner workings of death penalty cases and discover things they aren’t prepared to find.
A Book Review contributor, disappointed at first by characters who made stupid choices, eventually warmed to the book, writing that the book was “a great choice for legal thriller fans as well as those who enjoy a good mystery.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, May 30, 2016, review of Cotton, p. 41; September 26, 2016, review of Courting Death, p. 69.
ONLINE
Book Review, http://www.the-bookreview.com/ (December 8, 2016), review of Courting Death.
Errant Dreams, http://www.errantdreams.com/ (November 12, 2014), review of A Death in Eden.
Paul J. Heald Home Page, http://www.pauljheald.com (February 21, 2017).
University of Illinois College of Law, http://law.illinois.edu/ (March 17, 2017), faculty profile.
Paul Started writing fiction in college but quit abruptly when he discovered that he had nothing much to say. So, he fled graduate school for Madrid on the eve of the tumultuous first election since Franco seized power in 1937. Teaching English in Spain and then at Florida A & M University, an historically African-American college, followed by law school and a clerkship working on death cases with a famous federal judge, provided plenty of inspiration, but by then his three small children were demanding to be fed, so he took a job teaching copyright law at the University of Georgia School of Law. For several years, all creative energy was channeled into dozens of articles on intellectual property law and thousands of scurrilous emails. The publication in October 2014 of Death in Eden marks the first installment in a series of books whose characters will find themselves wandering the lovely tree-lined streets of Clarkeston, Georgia.
When he is not writing, Paul sings vaguely on pitch with various groups and teaches copyright at the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Red Herring fiction workshop, and his wife, Jill Crandall, directs the well-known women's a cappella choir, Amasong
Death in Eden will be published by Yucca Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing. Paul is represented by Peter Riva of International Transactions, Inc.
ABOUT
Paul Heald, the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law, joined the Illinois faculty in 2011 after 22 years at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was the youngest faculty member in the law school’s history to be named to a chaired position. He is also a fellow and associated researcher at CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, based at the University of Glasgow.
Heald lectures on patent, copyright and international intellectual property law around the world and has previously held visiting positions at universities in Buenos Aires, Bournemouth, London, Lyon, Regensburg, and at the University of Chicago, University of Texas, and Vanderbilt University. He also ran the UGA/OSU program at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, during the spring of 2009. He was Herbert Smith Visitor at Cambridge University in 2012.
Recent publications have focused on economic aspects of the public domain, and theoretical papers on optimal patent remedies, the role transaction costs in patent law, and the problem of patent pricing as well as empirical studies on best-selling fiction and musical compositions and the behavior of famous trademarks in product and service markets. He has also written two books on law and literature, and three novels, Death in Eden (2014), Cotton (2016) (selected as an Okra Pick by the Southern Booksellers’ Association), and Courting Death (2016).
Heald earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in comparative literature from the University of Illinois. As an undergraduate there, he fenced for two Big Ten championship teams and placed 18th in epee at the 1981 NCAA championships. He earned his law degree cum laude from the University of Chicago, where he served on the University of Chicago Law Review. Heald clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Follow Professor Heald on Twitter @pauljheald
Read Professor Heald’s blog at copyrightforauthors – Blogging about Copyright & Stuff
Listen to Professor Heald on Legal Issues in the News
EDUCATION
JD University of Chicago
BA, MA University of Illinois
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Copyright
Law & Economics
International Intellectual Property Law
Paul J. Heald
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul J. Heald
Me and wilbur.jpg
Paul J. Heald and Wilbur the Dog
Born April 19, 1957 (age 59)
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Education University of Illinois (A.B., A.M), University of Chicago (J.D.)
Employer University of Illinois
Known for
Mystery Fiction Intellectual Property Empirical Legal Studies
Spouse(s) Jill A. Crandall (m. 1984)
Paul J. Heald (born April 19, 1959) is an American novelist and law professor, best known for his murder mysteries and his empirical studies of the public domain. His fiction is published by Skyhorse Publishing,[1] and he is currently the Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Research Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law.[2]
Heald is the author of three novels, two books on Law and Literature,[3] and over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters, mostly on intellectual property law. He is also a Fellow & Associated Researcher,[4] CREATe, RCUK Centre for Copyright, University of Glasgow.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Published Works
2.1 Fiction
2.2 Non-Fiction
3 References
Biography[edit]
Heald was born in Evanston, Illinois, to Jame E. Heald, a professor, and Phyllis A. Heald (née Kosir), a homemaker. He has one sister, Laura Filuta (born 1960). He was valedictorian of DeKalb High School in 1977,[5] two years after National Book Award winner Richard Powers (1975)[6] and seven years before super-model Cindy Crawford (1984)[7] received the same honor from the same school. He attended the University of Illinois as a Comparative Literature major and was a varsity epée fencer on two Big Ten championship teams,[8] placing 4th in the Conference and 18th in the nation at the 1981 NCAA fencing finals.[9]
After college, Heald taught English at Florida A & M University, a historically African-American institution, and attended law school at the University of Chicago. He married Amasong Choir director Jill A. Crandall in 1984. After law school he clerked during the 1988-89 judicial term for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr., a well-known jurist portrayed by Martin Sheen in the 2014 movie Selma. He taught intellectual property law at the University of Georgia Law School from 1989-2011 and was the youngest professor there to ever have been granted an endowed chair, the Allen Post Professorship.[10]
Published Works[edit]
Fiction[edit]
Heald has written four novels which constitute The Clarkeston Chronicles: Death in Eden (2014), Cotton (2016), Courting Death (scheduled for release November 2016), and Georgia Requiem (not yet scheduled for release).[11]
Non-Fiction[edit]
In The Atlantic, Rebecca Rosen featured Heald's best-known copyright research entitled: "The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish."[12] The graph to the right summarizes his findings on the effect of copyright on the availability of a random sample of fiction and non-fiction titles on Amazon.[13]
2317 New Editions from Amazon by Decade
The large upswing in availability is attributed to the fact that all works published in the US before 1923 are in the public domain, which attracts new publishers. The large dip for mid-century books is caused by the continued enforceability of copyrights in newer titles. In this, and several other papers, he has demonstrated that copyright lacks the positive effect prediction by some economists: Copyright actually diminishes access to books.[14] The same research was the subject of Bob Garfield's National Public Radio Program, On the Media.[15]
In another well-known study, Heald and his co-authors estimate the value of public domain images on Wikipedia to be in excess of $200 million per year.[16] Heald's empirical research with Susannah Chapman[17] on the effect of patents on crop diversity has also been influential. As described in Science Daily: "Law professor Paul Heald says overall varietal diversity of the $20 billion market for vegetable crops and apples in the U.S. actually has increased over the past 100 years, a finding that should change the highly politicized debate over intellectual property policy."[18] Heald and Chapman compared crop varieties sold in commercial seed and nurserymen's catalogs in 1903-04 with those available in 2004 and found no significant decrease in crop diversity.
In a 1993 paper published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Heald explored remedies for copyfraud, suggesting that payment demands for spurious copyrights might be resisted in civil lawsuits under a number of commerce-law theories: (1) Breach of warranty of title; (2) unjust enrichment; (3) fraud; and (4) false advertising.[19]
Paul was born in Evanston, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois where he was a varsity epee fencer on two Big Ten Championship teams, placing 4th in the conference and 18th in the nation at the 1981 NCAA fencing finals. He began writing fiction while in college but quit abruptly when he discovered he had nothing much to say.
So, he fled graduate school for Madrid. Paul taught English in Spain and then at Florida A & M University, before attending law school at the University of Chicago. Clerking for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr. (portrayed by Martin Sheen in the 2014 movie Selma) and working on habeas corpus death cases provided plenty of inspiration for future writing.PaulHeald
In order to feed his three small children, he taught copyright law at the University of Georgia School of Law from 1989 to 2011 where he was the youngest professor to ever have been granted an endowed chair. In 2011, he became the Corman Research Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. For decades, all creative energy was channeled into dozens of articles on intellectual property law and thousands of scurrilous emails.
In October 2014, Skyhorse published his first book – Death in Eden. It is the first installment in a multi-part series of books – The Clarkeston Chronicles — whose characters find themselves wandering the lovely tree-lined streets of Clarkeston, Georgia. Cotton, the second installment, will be published July 2016, and Courting Death, the third installment, is scheduled for release December 2016. Georgia Requiem is the fifth installment, still to be scheduled for release.
me and wilburWhen he is not writing, Paul sings vaguely on pitch with various groups and teaches copyright law. He is a member of the Red Herring fiction workshop, and his wife, Jill Crandall, directs the well-known women’s chorus, Amasong.
The action builds to an ingeniously
satisfying resolution.
Cotton
Publishers Weekly.
263.22 (May 30, 2016): p41.
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Cotton
Paul J. Heald. Skyhorse/Yucca, $15.99 trade paper (362p) ISBN 978-1-63158-086-4
Heald's ambitious second entry in his Clarkeston Chronicles (after 2014's Death in Eden) pits a varied group of amateur sleuths looking into the
five-year-old disappearances of college student Diana Cavendish and her boyfriend, Jacob Granville, from Clarkeston, Ga., against well-hidden
and powerful adversaries. Newspaper reporter James Murphy, who covered the original story, finds recently posted photos of Cavendish on a softcore
website, which he reports to Atlanta first assistant U.S. attorney Melanie Wilkerson. Wilkerson calls in L.A. sociology professor Stanley
Hopkins, the hero of Death in Eden, for help in tracing the website owners. Pushback soon follows. Wilkerson gets a warning not to investigate,
and Murphy's house is trashed and his laptop stolen. Gradually, the trio piece together a complex story that begins with Granville's trip to Geneva,
Switzerland, years earlier and involves the World Trade Organization and powerful U.S. cotton interests. The action builds to an ingeniously
satisfying resolution. (July)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Cotton." Publishers Weekly, 30 May 2016, p. 41. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA454270585&it=r&asid=ace06e4c46a00c8dbc3fc10f7d72f28e. Accessed 5 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A454270585
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Courting Death
Publishers Weekly.
263.39 (Sept. 26, 2016): p69.
COPYRIGHT 2016 PWxyz, LLC
http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Courting Death
Paul J. Heald. Yucca, $15.99 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-63158-101-4
Set in the late 1980s, the absorbing third volume of Heald's Clarkeston Chronicles (after Cotton) follows three bright young lawyers, clerks for a
legendary civil rights judge from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as they tackle cases that pose moral and legal conundrums, besides
revealing the limitations of their power. Arthur Hughes, who's handling a habeas corpus case on the behalf of Karl Gottlieb, a convicted serial
killer who's seeking to avoid imminent execution, and fellow clerk Phil Garner consider the implications of recommending a stay for Gottlieb.
The third clerk, Melanie Wilkerson, becomes intrigued by the secrecy surrounding the death five years earlier of clerk Carolyn Bastaigne, who
broke her neck in a fall down a stairwell after working late at the office one night. Melanie investigates this tragedy in her spare time. For all
three, their real education is just beginning, and Heald skillfully illuminates the vagaries of crime and punishment in this disquieting look inside
the workings of the justice system. (Nov.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Courting Death." Publishers Weekly, 26 Sept. 2016, p. 69. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA465558209&it=r&asid=1fce5ba76b93dff18984201e64c5b334. Accessed 5 Feb.
2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A465558209
The characters are fairly universally unlikable. There’s little tension involved; the proper pacing for a thrilling mystery just isn’t there.
Non-Review: “A Death in Eden,” Paul J. Heald
Posted on November 12, 2014 by Heather — No Comments ↓
NOTE: Review book provided by author
I do a “non-review” when I couldn’t finish a book. I won’t review it on Amazon or GoodReads, but I don’t mind telling you here why I chose not to finish. If there’s one thing I’ve found over the years, it’s that there are too many good books to spend my time finishing a book that I can’t get into. Death in Eden: A Mystery was recommended to me based on the fact that I enjoy J.D. Robb/Nora Roberts’s “in death” series. That may have set my expectations too high.
Death in Eden introduces us to Stanley, a sociology professor without tenure (naturally) who’s decided to spend part of his upcoming book’s space on women in the adult film industry. Eventually there’s a murder, and somehow it falls to Stanley to prove his old school friend’s innocence–by finding the real killer (of course). I read more than half of the book before giving up.
It is possible to turn such a simple list of events into the entire first half of a book, but the characters, events, and window-dressing have to be damn fine to pull it off. In my opinion, that didn’t happen here. The characters are fairly universally unlikable. There’s little tension involved; the proper pacing for a thrilling mystery just isn’t there. It feels as though the author is excited about all this adult film industry detail and is therefore pouring out those details willy-nilly, without much thought for rhythm, dialogue, and so forth. He also handles conversations in a manner that undercuts any interesting pacing: he bounces back and forth between using actual dialogue, and simply summing up conversations or parts of conversations with narrative. Chunks of the narrative are devoted to info-dump monologues. It robs those conversations of any momentum they might have. (Sure, it’s possible to sum up conversations and have it work, but it needs to be an occasional thing and carefully used.)
As much as I hate having to NR a book that an author asked me to read, there are just too many books on my plate to spend more time working my way through material that doesn’t interest me.
a great choice for legal thriller fans as well as those who enjoy a good mystery.
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Courting Death by Paul J. Heald- Feature and Review
ABOUT THE BOOK:
From an internationally recognized law professor comes the third legal thriller in an exciting mystery series, the Clarkeston Chronicles.
Courting Death finds Melanie Wilkerson (from Cotton, book two of the Clarkeston Chronicles) and Arthur Hughes working uncomfortably together in the chambers of a famous federal judge. While Melanie neglects her duties as a law clerk to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman in the courthouse five years earlier, Arthur wades through the horrific habeas corpus appeals of two prisoners: an infamous serial killer and a pathetic child murder.
Melanie, a Georgia native who returns from law school in the Northeast, hoped to establish a legal reputation that will eclipse her beauty pageant queen past, which she is now desperate to disown. Arthur is a bright but naive Midwesterner who is rapidly seduced by the small Georgia college town of Clarkeston which, to his surprise, comes with an exotic and attractive landlady. The cohort of federal court clerks is completed by Phil Jenkins, a Stanford graduate from San Francisco who tries his best to balance the personalities of his volatile colleagues.
Living and working in bucolic Clarkeston comes with a price. In Courting Death, Arthur, Melanie, and Phil are confronted with the extremes of human mortality, both in and outside the legal system, in ways that they could never have expected or prepared for.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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MY REVIEW: Courting Death (The Clarkeston Chronicles #3)Courting Death by Paul Heald
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Courting Death by Paul Heald is a 2016 Yucca publication.
Other than a few blips where the characters make stupid choices that deeply disappointed me, but which I forgave …. eventually, I did appreciate this legal drama and found that even though the story centered around death penalty cases, which of course is a very controversial and pretty depressing topic, the author handled it with aplomb, giving the reader a great deal of insight into the inner workings of these cases, which was what appealed to me most of all about this book.
I also liked the idea of giving the reader two threads to puzzle through, making this book a great choice for legal thriller fans as well as those who enjoy a good mystery.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Paul Started writing fiction in college but quit abruptly when he discovered that he had nothing much to say. So, he fled graduate school for Madrid on the eve of the tumultuous first election since Franco seized power in 1937. Teaching English in Spain and then at Florida A & M University, an historically African-American college, followed by law school and a clerkship working on death cases with a famous federal judge, provided plenty of inspiration, but by then his three small children were demanding to be fed, so he took a job teaching copyright law at the University of Georgia School of Law. For several years, all creative energy was channeled into dozens of articles on intellectual property law and thousands of scurrilous emails. The publication in October 2014 of Death in Eden marks the first installment in a series of books whose characters will find themselves wandering the lovely tree-lined streets of Clarkeston, Georgia.
When he is not writing, Paul sings vaguely on pitch with various groups and teaches copyright at the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Red Herring fiction workshop, and his wife, Jill Crandall, directs the well-known women's a cappella choir, Amasong
Death in Eden is published by Yucca Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing. Paul is represented by Peter Riva of International Transactions, Inc.