Bertram Fields

Bertram Fields was born in Los Angeles. A practicing lawyer, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After serving as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he began the general practice of law. Since then, he has tried many of the landmark cases in the entertainment, sports and communications industries and has been the subject of numerous personal profiles in magazines and newspapers. He taught at Stanford Law School and lectured annually at Harvard University.

Mr. Fields authored Summing Up: A Professional Memoir, Gloriana: Exploring The Reign Of Elizabeth I, Destiny: A Novel Of Napoleon & Josephine, and Shylock: His Own Story, published by Marmont Lane Books.

He also wrote Royal Blood, a biographical work on Richard III, and Players, an analysis of the Shakespeare authorship question. Both non-fiction books were published by HarperCollins.

Mr. Fields was the author, under a pseudonym, of two prior novels, The Sunset Bomber published by Simon and Schuster and The Lawyer's Tale published by Marmont Lane Books.