Gary Phillips (author)
# Gary Phillips (author)

Gary Phillips (born August 24, 1955) is an writer, editor, and community activist whose works include Angeltown, Orange County Noir and The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. His 1994 novel Violent Spring was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles by CrimeReads. Phillips also served a story editor and writer on the tv show Snowfall.

## Life

Phillips was born on August 24, 1955, in Los Angeles to Dikes Phillips, a mechanic, and Leonelle Hutton Phillips, a librarian.

