Lisa Scottoline spent many hours as a child in her local library and her love for reading was encouraged by the librarians she was lucky enough to meet along the way. A true believer in the importance of promoting reading, Lisa is a strong advocate and dedicated fan of libraries and librarians. In her small way, Lisa tries to give back to a system which has given so much too so many, by participating in library events across the country.

She has been to several library conferences and has visited libraries from coast to coast. A regular at the Philadelphia Free Library, Lisa participated in the "Visiting Author" series at the Des Moines Public Library, was a keynote speaker at the New Jersey Library Association Conference and was a banquet speaker for the Oregon/Washington Library Association Conference.
Lisa Scottoline graduated magna cum laude in three years from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. Her degree was in English with a concentration in the Contemporary American Novel. Lisa then graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1981, where she served as an Associate Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Lisa began her legal career with a clerkship for President Judge Edmund B. Spaeth Jr. of the Pennsylvania Superior Court. When the clerkship ended, she joined Dechert, Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia as an associate. In 1986, she left the firm to raise her newborn daughter and began writing legal fiction part-time. In 1994, Scottoline re-entered the legal world as an administrative law clerk to Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, while writing her first novel.

Lisa's first novel, Everywhere That Mary Went, was published in 1994. That novel became a bestseller and was nominated for the Edgar Award, the most prestigious award given in crime fiction, awarded by the Mystery Writers of America. Lisa's second novel, Final Appeal, received an Edgar Award. Since then she has written 11 more legal suspense novels, all of which have appeared on bestseller lists.

Scottoline presently has nine million copies in print in the United States, not including audio, e-book and various large print editions. Internationally, Lisa is published in 23 countries. A list of her novels includes: Everywhere That Mary Went (1994); Final Appeal (1995); Running From the Law (1996); Legal Tender (1997); Rough Justice (1998); Mistaken Identity (1999); Moment of Truth (2000); The Vendetta Defense (2001); Courting Trouble (2002); Dead Ringer (2003); Killer Smile (2004); Devil's Corner (2005); Dirty Blonde (2006) and Daddy's Girl (2007).

Lisa has also joined the faculty as a visiting professor at The University of Pennsylvania Law School to teach a course she created entitled "Justice and Fiction." She serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America, National Italian American Foundation and Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts.