RICHARD L. BECKER

Meet Richard L. Becker

Imaginative, outrageous, and completely unconstrained, Richard L. Becker is the Yale Law graduate, practicing family law attorney, and longtime youth hockey coach who writes the fiction most people are afraid to live.

Every day in the courtroom and on the ice, he witnesses the moral compromises, power struggles, desperation, and breathtaking absurdity of the American justice system and competitive youth sports. He channels these raw realities into compulsively readable novels that feel shockingly authentic yet wildly entertaining.

From a private investigator hired to seduce an assistant coach, to characters who will do anything to win, Becker’s darkly comic, topical fiction explores one timeless question: What happens when a just person fights an unjust world — and innocence must either defeat immorality… or join it?

The Writing Life

“When a story seizes me, I sit at the computer, put on music, and go blank. Hours later I surface with new pages. The characters do what they do.”

The result is raw, topical escapist fiction that delivers uncomfortable truths about love, greed, revenge, redemption — and the systems that govern American life today.

Background

A New Jersey native and lifelong Devils fan now rooted in Kansas, Richard earned his undergraduate degree from Lehigh University and his law degree from Yale Law School. For decades he has practiced family law while coaching youth hockey. These two high-stakes worlds form the authentic heartbeat for every novel he writes.

Signature Works • Richard Becker's Best