Justin Peacock Dies: ‘Suits’ & ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ Writer Was 52
deadline.comJustin Peacock, a former lawyer who switched careers to become author and then TV writer-producer, died July 13 at his Los Angeles home of natural causes due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to the L.A.
County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office. He was 52. Peacock graduated from the University of Michigan with BA, from Columbia University with MFA and from Yale Law School.
He worked as an intellectual property and First Amendment attorney in New York, with his experience ranging from death penalty defense, to First Amendment cases, and big-firm litigation, before publishing his first novel, A Cure for Night, in 2008.
The book, from Doubleday, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and honored by The Washington Postas a Book of the Year. He went on to become a full-time writer and relocated to Los Angeles in 2011 to work on Suits.
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