Gary Phillips
Author · 17 books
GARY PHILLIPS has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including South Central Noir and the Anthony 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 also a writer/co-producer on FX’s Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include One-Shot Harry and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.
Series
Books
South Central Noir
2022
The Underbelly
2010
Only the Wicked
2000
Ash Dark as Night
2024
The Warlord of Willow Ridge
2012
Noir
2009
DC Comics novels - Batman
The Killing Joke
2018
Violent Spring
1994
Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem
2020
Bangers
2003
Monkology
The Ivan Monk Stories
2004
One-Shot Harry
2022
High Hand
2000
Witnesses for the Dead
Stories
2022
The Perpetrators
2002
The Jook
1999
Noir is the New Black
2021
