Dan Flanigan
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Dan Flanigan

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Dan Flanigan is a novelist, playwright, poet, and practicing lawyer. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Rice University and J.D. from the University of Houston. He taught Jurisprudence at the University of Houston and American Legal History at the University of Virginia. His first published book was his Ph.D. dissertation, The Criminal Law of Slavery and Freedom, 1800-1868. He moved on from academia to serve the civil rights cause as a school desegregation lawyer, followed by a long career as a finance attorney in private law practice. He became a name partner in the Polsinelli law firm in Kansas City, created its Financial Services practice, chaired its Real Estate & Financial Services Department for two decades, and established the firm’s New York City office and served as its managing partner until October 2022. His legal bio may be viewed at the Polsinelli website. Taking a break from the law practice for two years, he and his wife, Candy, founded Sierra Tucson, a prominent alcohol and drug treatment center located in Tucson, Arizona. Recently, he has been able to turn his attention to his lifelong ambition—creative writing. Since 2019, Dan has published four novels in his award-winning Peter O’Keefe detective series, a poetry collection titled Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death about the illness and death of his wife of 43 years, and a collection of short fiction called Dewdrops. Dan has also written stage plays including Secrets (based on the life of Karl Marx’s youngest daughter, Eleanor) and Moondog’s Progress (loosely based on the “founder” of rock ‘n roll, disc jockey Alan Freed). His novella, Dewdrops, was originally written for the stage and enjoyed a full-cast staged reading at the Theatre of the Open Eye in New York. Dan serves on the Board of Directors of Childhood USA, the U.S. arm of the World Childhood Foundation, established by Queen Silvia of Sweden, working to end child sexual abuse and exploitation everywhere. He divides his time among Kansas City, New York City, and Los Angeles, and, whenever possible, visits the Catskills in New York and the San Juan Islands (off the coast of Washington state), as well as the Gulf Islands, Vancouver, and Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
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