Jim Craig
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Attorney, Writer, Blogger |
| Location | Jackson, Mississippi, United States |
| Introduction | Born and raised just north of Berkeley, California, I ended up in Mississippi in 1982. I've lived several lives at law: associate for an African-American plaintiffs' firm, director of an office handling death penalty appeals, partner in the firm of Phelps Dunbar LLP, and now senior capital attorney at the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, consulting with lawyers on capital cases and representing death-sentenced prisoners. I aspire to be ironic, idealistic, imaginative and iconoclastic. Sometimes it works. |
| Interests | Writing (Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Non-fiction), Baseball (Oakland Athletics, Los Angeles Dodgers), Football (New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders), Reading, History, Politics, Capital Punishment, walking my dogs, protestant theology, process philosophy |
| Favorite movies | Saving Private Ryan, Reds, The Life of Brian, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Shawshank Redemption, Shakespeare In Love, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Man In The Iron Mask, My Cousin Vinny, The Chamber |
| Favorite music | Gustav Mahler, R.E.M., Indigo Girls, Johnny Cash |
| Favorite books | The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch, The March by E.L. Doctorow, The Rabbit novels by John Updike, My People is the Enemy by William Stringfellow, The Presence of the Kingdom by Jacques Ellul, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, The General in His Labyrinth by Gonzalo Marquez, The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa |