Alice S. Vachss

Starting as a public defender in the rough-and-tumble of Manhattan's Night Court in the 1970's, representing foster children in Family Court, as a New York City sex crimes prosecutor, as an educator and trainer at podiums, on paper, and in classrooms, and in courtrooms in the Pacific Northwest, Alice Vachss has spent the past five decades fighting villainy. The first of her two-book autobiography highlighted her years running a Special Victims Bureau chief in NYC. “Sex Crimes” was published by Random House in 1993 and promptly named a NY Times Notable Book of the Year. “Sex Crimes: Then and Now” is an acclaimed two-volume e-book including the original as well as a sequel detailing her international work and highlighting her trials as a special prosecutor for sex crimes in rural America. Watch for her debut novel, OBaaT in early 2025