Robert Traver is the pseudonym of John Donaldson Voelker who served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Marquette County, Michigan and later as the 74th Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He wrote many books reflecting his two passions, the law and flyfishing, Troubleshooters, Danny and the Boys and Small Town D.A.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Danny and the Boys, Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow (1951). Cleveland: World Publishing Co.
Anatomy of a Murder (1958). New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Hornstein’s Boy (1962). New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Laughing Whitefish (1965). New York: McGraw-Hill.
People Versus Kirk (1981). New York: St Martin’s Press.
Non Fiction
Trouble-Shooter: The Story of a Northwoods Prosecutor (1943). New York: Viking Press. Memoir
Small Town D.A. (1954) New York: Dutton. Memoir
Trout Madness, Being a Dissertation on the Symptoms and Pathology of this Incurable Disease by One of Its Victims (1960). New York: St. Martin’s Press
Anatomy of a Fisherman (1964). New York: McGraw-Hill.
The Jealous Mistress (1967). Boston: Little, Brown. Memoir
Trout Magic (1974). New York: Crown.
Traver on Fishing: A Treasury of Robert Traver’s Finest Stories and Essays About Fishing for Trout (2001). Lyons, Nick (ed.). Guilford, CT: Lyons Press.
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