Philip Friedman

Philip Friedman (born January 8, 1944) is an American author and attorney. His book Reasonable Doubt spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list He is also the co-author of a nonfiction book about the Pilates Method, co-author of the screenplay for the Warner Brothers movie Rage, and a practicing attorney. Education Friedman received an AB in mathematics from Princeton University and studied mathematics as a research assistant at the Operations Research Center of the University of California, Berkeley, and at the graduate department of mathematics at Stanford University.  He received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in copyright law. Career Friedman and Dan Kleinman wrote a treatment for what became the screenplay for the movie Rage while in law school. The movie starred and was directed by George C. Scott. Friedman wrote a novel based on the same story, which was published by Atheneum Press and was a featured selection of the Literary Guild. A past member of the National Board of Mystery Writers of America, Friedman is the author of eleven other novels, including a series of legal thrillers that spent a total of 26 weeks on The New York Times' bestseller lists. Termination Order was selected for The New York Times’ list of the Best Books of 1979 (now called Notable Books). Friedman's series about a squad of military investigators and troubleshooters, written under the name Philip Chase, was published as paperback-originals by Dell Books.