A lawyer by training, Julius Melnitzer, author of Dirty White Collar, is a legal affairs journalist who spent almost two decades as an advocate in Ontario's criminal and civil courts. He is the author of Maximum, Minimum, Medium (Key Porter), a true-life account of his experiences with Canada's prison system, as well as several legal texts. His work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Ottawa Citizen, and he writes regularly for Lexpert Magazine, and Law Times. Mr. Melnitzer lives in Toronto, where he is working on his second novel in between stints as a form of galley slave to his granddaughter.