John Morgan Wilson

John Morgan Wilson is a veteran journalist, TV news and documentary writer, and fiction writer. Simple Justice launched his Benjamin Justice mystery series in 1996, earning an Edgar Allan Poe Award (AKA "the Edgar") from Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. Three other Justice titles in the eight-book series won Lambda Literary Awards for best gay men's mystery; six were nominated. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,...See more

John Morgan Wilson is a veteran journalist, TV news and documentary writer, and fiction writer. Simple Justice launched his Benjamin Justice mystery series in 1996, earning an Edgar Allan Poe Award (AKA "the Edgar") from Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. Three other Justice titles in the eight-book series won Lambda Literary Awards for best gay men's mystery; six were nominated. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Blithe House Quarterly, and numerous anthologies. For thirty years, he served as an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. He lives with his longtime companion, artist Pietro Gamino, in West Hollywood, California, the primary setting for the Benjamin Justice series. See less