John Voelker Alias Robert Traver Anatomy Of An Author

Former attorney county prosecutor and Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker alias Robert Traver was born in 1903 in Ishpheming Michigan in Michigans Upper Peninsula He somehow survived the awesome experience of having spawned a National Best Seller ANATOMY OF A MURDER Voelker was the defense attorney in the trial upon which the book is based He used the pen name of Robert Traver thinking it would seem inappropriate for a sitting judge to also be a crime novelist