Gordon Peter Wilson

was born in New Orleans in 1963 and graduated from Newman High School in 1981. He attended Vanderbilt University and earned a B.A. in English in 1985. He received a J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 1989.

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He practiced law in New Orleans for 25 years mostly defending shipyards in industrial lung disease cases.

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After he retired from the practice in 2013, his first novel, Quench the Smoldering Wick was published in 2018.

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He lives in New Orleans.