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Andrew Vachss Uses Printed Page, World Wide Web To Lobby For Young Victims By Steve Elliott Originally published in The Fresno Bee, August 4, 1997 For the past 30 years, as a social worker, lawyer and author, Andrew Vachss has…

Lawyer Sees the Dark Side and Lives to Tell About ItAttorney-writer derives fiction from the sordid facts within his memory. By Craig Holyoak, Deseret News staff writer Deseret News, Sunday, January 19, 1997 “I am not a writer,” he claims.…

Reading: False Allegations Originally published in San Diego Reader, November 21, 1996. Author: Andrew Vachss (rhymes with “tax”), born in 1942, raised on Manhattan’s Lower West Side. Mr. Vachss received his B.A. from Case-Western Reserve University in 1965; he graduated…

A Voice For Abused ChildrenAndrew Vachss writes books with single-minded focus By Joe Holleman of the Post-Dispatch Staff Originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 18, 1996 Andrew Vachss—rhymes with Axe—writes as well as anyone putting pen-to-detective-fiction paper. He…

Andrew Vachss By Nancy Shulins Originally published by the Associated Press, July 19, 1996 NEW YORK (AP) — Fictional warriors rarely get hurt. Not so in life. The human body is fragile. Flesh tears. Bones break. In the 30 years…

Author Exposes Child Prostitution in Thailand Edited by Alia Taliaferrow, 17 Editor: Ariana Hellerman, 15 Reporters: Ben Abelson, 11; Elizabeth Daly, 12; Rachel Falkenstein, 13 Originally published in Children’s Express, a column in theNew York Amsterdam News, July 13, 1996…

New Line Bears “Cross” by Dan Cox and Monica RomanOriginally published in Daily Variety, June 4, 1996. New Line Cinema has optioned the screenplay for the Dark Horse comic book, “Cross,” by lawyer/novelist Andrew Vachss and James Colbert in a…

Kids for Sale By Bob HerbertOriginally published in the New York Times Op-Ed, Jan. 22, 1996. “Sometimes you just have to swallow hard and drink another gin,” said the teen-aged prostitute in Bangkok, Thailand. “I couldn’t get through some nights…

Batman Takes on the Ultimate Evil By Jane Ciabattari Originally published in Parade Magazine, October 22, 1995. “You steal childhood itself,” shouts an outraged Batman in Batman: The Ultimate Evil. In the new novel—due out Nov. 7 from Warner Aspect,…

Minneapolis Star-Tribune, REPEAT OFFENDERS: Free to Rape A series which originally appeared November 10th thru 12th, 1991 Recidivism of Child Molestors 20 Years After Treatment Principal Researcher: R. Karl Hanson (Psychology Department, York University, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3), findings presented…