Born: 06/29/1903   Ishpeming , MI
Died: 03/19/1991
Parents: George Oliver, Annie Voelker
Spouse: Grace Taylor
Children: Elizabeth, Julie, Grace
Address(es):
Interred: Ispheming Cemetery
Ispheming , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	People versus Kirk - As Robert Traver.	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York, N.Y. : St Martin's Press	1981
	Trout Magic - As Robert Traver.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : Crown Publishers	1974
	The Jealous Mistress - Fictionalized accounts of actual legal cases.(Publication Years: 1967, 1968)	Fiction	Adult	New York: Little, Brown and Co.	1967
	Laughing Whitefish - As Robert Traver. Based on three nineteenth-century Michigan Supreme Court decisions in a case involving an Ojibwa woman’s attempt to collect a debt owed to her father.	Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York : McGraw, Hill	1965
	Anatomy of Fisherman - As Robert Traver. Sport fishing.	Non Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York: McGraw-Hill	1964
	Horstein's Boy - As Robert Traver.	Fiction	Adult	New York : S. Martin's Press	1962
	Trout madness, being a dissertation on the symptoms and pathology of this incurable disease by one of its victims - As Robert Traver. Fishing stories (799.1)	Non Fiction , Michigan , Short Stories	Adult	New York, St. Martin's Press	1960
	Anatomy of a Murder - As Robert Traver. Dell 1959, Ullstein (Berlin) 1959, was Book-of-the-Month-Club, as a film it won seven Academy Awards (Publication Years: 1957, 1958, 1983)	Fiction , Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York : St. Martin's Press	1958 -1983
	Small Town D.A. - As Robert Traver.	Biography , Michigan	Adult	New York : Dutton	1954
	Danny and the Boys; Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow - As Robert Traver.	Fiction , Michigan , Short Stories	Adult	World Publishing (1951), Wayne State University Press (1987)	1951
	Troubleshooter : a story of a northwoods prosecutor - As Robert Traver.	Biography	Adult	New York : Viking Press	1943
	Other writings: - Articles, essays, book reviews, and stories in Story, Prairie Schooner, Hinterland	Fiction	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 1st ed says, "His books reflect his background and understanding of the law. One became a best-seller, and was made into a moving picture (Anatomy of a Murder)." 2nd ed says, "Asked why he publishes so infrequently he replied: 'During the fleeting hours of trout season I can barely find time to sign my Social Security checks let alone write books and stories.'"

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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"I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful...because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness; [and] not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant—and not nearly so much fun." Trout Madness by Robert Traver

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