Lowell B. Komie is a Chicago attorney and writer. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1951 and his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1954. The Judge’s Chambers, his book of short stories, was the first collection of fiction published by the American Bar Association. The Lawyer’s Chambers, his collection of fiction published in 1994, won the Carl Sandburg Fiction Award in 1995 from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His stories have been published in Harper’s, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Magazine, Chicago Bar Record, Canadian Lawyer, and by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and many other magazines and university and literary quarterlies. He lives in Deerfield, Illinois.
From the back cover of The Last Jewish Shortstop in America:
The Last Jewish Shortstop in America is set in a Chicago North Shore suburb where David Epstein, a fortyish, divorced father of two, behind on his alimony and child support, has built and promoted a gigantic Hall of Fame for Jewish sports heroes. It stands nine stories high, built of glass in the shape of the Star of David…
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