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William Herbert Deverell (born March 4, 1937) is a Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer. He is one of Canada's best-known novelists, whose first book, Needles, which drew on his experiences as a criminal lawyer, won the McClelland & Stewart $50,000 Seal Award. [1]
William Deverell. ~ Welcome ~ to the website of William Deverell, Canadian novelist and winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in North American Crime Writing. July 3rd 2024. Long-Shot Trial: New York Times Review. Deverell paces his story beautifully and weaves in some final surprises.
Learn how William Deverell, a former lawyer and journalist, became a successful crime writer and moved to a Gulf Island in Canada. Read his personal memoir of his island life, his books, and his awards.
William Deverell is the author of the radio series, Scales of Justice and a film released in 1990, Mindfield where he supplied the screenplay. The Canadian television series Street Legal was a product of Deverell’s writing based on his screenplay Shellgame.
William Deverell is a historian of the American West, with expertise in political, social, ethnic, and environmental history. He is the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative.
William Deverell has 55 books on Goodreads with 6089 ratings. William Deverell’s most popular book is April Fool (Arthur Beauchamp, #2).
William Deverell is a professor of history at USC and the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He has written several books on the history of Los Angeles and the American West, and is a coeditor of the Blackwell Companions to American History series.
