Scott Phillips (born 1961) is an American writer primarily of crime fiction in the noir tradition. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and after co-writing and directing the independent short film Walking Blues lived for several years in France, working as a translator and photographer. He returned to the United States living in California as a screenwriter, co-writing a 1996 thriller called Crosscut among many other projects, both credited and uncredited. He has sometimes been confused with another author of the same professional name.
Books in order of publication:
The Ice Harvest (2000)
The Walkaway (2002)
Cottonwood (2004)
Rut (2010)
Rum, Sodomy, and False Eyelashes Short Story Collection (2011)
The Adjustment (2012)
Rake (2013)
Hop Alley (2014)
St. Louis Noir Editor/Contributor (2016)
That Left Turn At Albuquerque (2020)
The Devil Raises His Own (2024)
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