| David Corbett
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 | Biography
David Corbett grew up in Columbus, Ohio, under the tutelage of Dominican nuns. He wants to assure them he is heartily sorry. He attended Ohio State University, where he won a poetry prize, earned Phi Beta Kappa honors his junior and senior years, and graduated cum laude with a degree in mathematics. These accomplishments were preceded by a year playing guitar and bass in a bar band, a four-sometimes-five-man outfit which took by storm such Midwestern Musical Meccas as: Kokomo, Indiana; Lima, Ohio; Beckley, West Virginia; and Midland, Michigan. This proved to be a formative time; he met many cocktail waitresses. He earned a fellowship in linguistics to the University of California at Berkeley, an opportunity he managed to squander in a matter of weeks. He left graduate school before being forcibly removed, after which he worked some might say floundered as a musician, comedian and actor before discovering that he was, in fact, a writer. In 1983, he joined the private investigation firm of Palladino & Sutherland in San Francisco, figuring the job might provide a little material here and there. He stayed thirteen years. During that time, he worked on a number of high-profile criminal and civil litigations, including the Lincoln Savings & Loan Case, The Cotton Club Murder Case, The People's Temple Trial, the Michael Jackson case and a RICO civil litigation brought by the Teamsters against former union leaders associated with organized crime. In 1995, he eased out of private investigation work to open a small law practice with his wife, Terri, specializing in probate litigation, estate planning and small business law. (For more on Terri, see Cesidia on this website.) She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in September, 2000, and in January, 2001, passed away at age 46. David continues to reside in northern California. |
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