Daniel McLinden

Daniel McLinden is a writer, educator, and attorney. After many years of civil trial work, he began teaching law in community colleges in Los Angeles. Before becoming a lawyer, he taught ESL to migrant workers, and Spanish to mental health workers, state prisoners, and university students in Utah. In his early twenties he hitch-hiked from San Diego, California to Puno, Peru and back, including three weeks on the Amazon, then later through Europe and Canada. He logged in Alaska, mined in Idaho, and worked construction in Montana.

Growing up in a Navy family he attended thirteen schools before graduating high school, and, with six siblings, lived in thirteen cities in eight states.

He wrote “Tracks” a generational novel about a fictional Mexican immigrant family and “Civil Rights in America – A Handbook of Legal History” a textbook for law and history students. His most recent novel, “Wrongful Death” looks back at crime-solving and life as a messenger/paralegal/law student in the late seventies in Hollywood, where he spent many years.