Unleashing the Criminal MindLawyer-author finds too much material in streets of N.Y. By Dave Ford Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 1990. NEW YORK — A warm Saturday night, just after 10. Times Square is beginning to…
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A Lawyer’s Novel Voice Pleads: Halt the Assembly Line for Society’s ‘Monsters’ By Linnet MyersOriginally published in Chicago Tribune, January 2, 1989. Andrew Vachss works within the law; the character he created works outside it. Yet both the author and…
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One Man’s War on Child Abuse By Nina McCainOriginally published in The Boston Globe, Oct. 17, 1988 It is hard to take Andrew Vachss seriously until you meet him. First there is the dust jacket photo on his latest book—an…
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Lawyer-Author Fuels His Fiction With Anger Drawn From Real Life By Garry Abrams Originally published in the Los Angeles Times October 9, 1988 ANGER is the motor in Andrew Vachss’ brain. It makes him get up at 5 a.m. every…
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Pages: On The Subject Of Child Abuse, Andrew Vachss Is One Tough Lawyer And One Tough Author By Andrew AbrahamsOriginally published in People Weekly, September 18, 1988. Max grabbed the freak’s fingertips, stretching the hand out for me. I raised…
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The Law: Taking on Children as ClientsBy Georgia DulleaOriginally published by The New York Times, June 17, 1988 Andrew H. Vachss, counselor at law, and a 6-year-old client in a Met cap went to Family Court in Westchester County last…
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In Defense of the ChildrenLawyer Andrew Henry Vachss, Fighting Urban Evil With Fiction By Sandy RovnerOriginally published in The Washington Post, May 27, 1987 It may be a cliche to suggest that Andrew Henry Vachss might have stepped from the…
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The Last Angry ManLawyer Andrew Vachss takes to novels to fight child abuse By Eric PooleyOriginally published in New York Magazine, May 25, 1987 “The street hasn’t turned over yet,” says Andrew Vachss at dusk, moving through a clutch of…
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An Attorney Turns to Fiction By Helen Dudar Originally published in The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 1985 Andrew H. Vachss, a New York lawyer awesomely knowledgeable about the seamier sides of city life, wrote his first novel some years…