Baine Kerr, Esq.

Outside his practice, Baine Kerr's principal interest is fiction writing. He has published a book of short stories, Jumping-Off Place, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, the University Press of Colorado, and elsewhere. He was one of 100 authors selected nationwide by the National Endowment for the Arts for a 1983 fellowship in fiction, and was, with Lewis Thomas, M.D., the co-recipient of the 1992 Editor's Award of The Missouri Review. His best-selling novels, which have been published by Scribner/Simon and Schuster, and, in paperback, by Berkeley/Jove, are Harmful Intent, 1999 and 2000, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and Wrongful Death, 2002 and 2003, which drew on his sabbatical-year experiences as an elections supervisor in Bosnia and a war crimes journalist in The Hague.

Baine has lectured on legal and literary topics at the Rocky Mountain Survivors' Center, the Texas Book Festival, the Colorado Book Festival, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Literacy, Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael, California, the Colorado Lawyers' Committee, the North American Society for Sociology of Sport, Moving to End Sexual Assault, the American College of Radiology, and the DU, CU and Harvard law schools. Baine has made numerous appearances on public radio in Denver, Boulder, and Houston; on commercial television in Houston and Colorado Springs; on public television in Denver and Houston; and on commercial radio in Denver, Colorado Springs, Houston, Tucson, and San Francisco. His novels have received over 100 favorable book reviews.

 

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