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went on to U-M, where
he majored in literature
before earning a law
degree at the University
of San Francisco.
After practicing law in
Washington, D.C., and
suburban Detroit, Gillis
broke away from the family
career pattern. His father is
a principal in the law firm
Sommers, Schwartz, Silver
and Schwartz, and his
brother, Robert, also is an
area attorney.
Along with making his
life-changing decision to
take on writing full time,
he took on the last name
Gillis, the maiden name
of his wife, Mary, an edi-
tor for a research publish-
er. He thinks this is a way
to honor her.
"I work in seclusion
and show the pages to my
wife when they're fin-
ished enough to have
comments mean some-
thing," says Gillis, who
Steven Gillis works on his fiction projects every day
structured Walter Falls
between 5 a.m. and 2 p.m.
from a short story he had
written and another novel
he had started.
"I have an extreme
and Zach, are being raised Jewish
writing routine and never deviate.
without the formal instruction he
When I was in school, I ran track
had, insists there is an overall spiritu-
and cross country, and now I run
al element to his first novel, which is
every morning before starting to
being followed by The Weight of
work.
Nothing, set in the same college town
"After 2 p.m. on weekdays, I pick
with different characters and being
up the kids from school and run
prepared for release in 2004.
errands. A big part of my writing
His third book, about rebellion in
develops from reading, so I read a lot
a fictitious country, is in the works.
in the evenings."
"I think of Walter Falls as a spiritu-
Although Gillis has essentially
al book because of the moral under-
written Walter Falls without touching tone," Gillis says. "Religion is impor-
upon Judaism, there are two connec-
tant to me but not in the traditional
tions that reflect his Jewish back-
sense. Being a good, moral person is
ground. One has to do with men-
important to me." I I
tioning "kugel" among other foods
in a disagreement detailed early in
Steven Gillis of Ann Arbor will
the novel. The other references a
speak and sign copies of Walter
newspaper article about a Palestinian
Falls 7-9 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at
rescuing an Israeli, an incident
the Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield,
described in a concluding chapter.
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"The word lugel' just seemed to
Also
speaking and signing
flow within the context," explains
copies of their new books will be
Gillis, who had his bar mitzvah and
Birmingham author Debra
confirmation at Temple Israel.
Darvick (Thisiewish Life, see the
"I thought the [Mideast] reference
June
6 issue of the Jewish News,
was very relevant and powerful, and I
page
74) and former Detroiter
wanted to play that off of what
Rosalee
Mandell Jaeger (Love and
Walter did. It could have been flip-
Other
Passions-,
see the June 13
flopped the other way, an Israeli sav-
issue of the Jewish News, page 66).
ing a Palestinian."
Gillis, whose two children, Anna
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