Miles Corwin is a Los Angeles-based author and journalist who specializes in crime and the criminal justice system.
In And Still We Rise (William Morrow, 2000),[5][6] Corwin spent a year with academically gifted seniors at an inner city high school in Los Angeles.
Corwin’s Homicide Special (Henry Holt, 2003)[7] documents six complex police investigations, including the murders of actor Robert Blake’s second wife and of a friend of Robert Durst, a real estate heir, who was convicted of the homicide twenty years later.
In 2015 Corwin published L.A. Nocturne (Calman-Levy),[10] set in 1946 Los Angeles, in which LAPD homicide detective Jacob Silver tries to solve a high profile murder.
[12] The column told the story of the rescue of Corwin’s father, Lloyd, by a gay soldier during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge.