A Lawyer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475119503)

After college, Ronald L. Ruiz went to law school "for all the wrong reasons," he now says. After ten years of practicing criminal defense law, Ruiz returned to writing and began working on his critically acclaimed first novel, Happy Birthday Jes俍 (Arte P炻lico Press, 1994). His second novel, Giuseppe Rocco (Arte P炻lico Press, 1998), is the recipient of a national literary prize, the 1998 Premio Aztl疣. Ron Ruiz "is at his best when depicting personal struggles," says the San Jose Mercury News about his third novel, The Big Bear (Arte P炻lico Press, 2003). A graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School, criminal defense attorney and former District Attorney of Santa Cruz County, Ruiz retired from criminal law and continues to write every day.