Edwin Torres

Edwin Torres was born in New York City. In 1948 he entered City College and in his junior year enlisted in the Navy. He returned in 1954 and graduated cum laude, going on to put himself through Brooklyn Law School in two years while waiting tables at night. The same year he graduated law school he became the first Puerto Rican Assistant District Attorney in New York City, assigned to homicide. He published Carlito’s Way in 1975 and two novels followed, After Hours and Q & A; with the completion of Carlito’s Way, all three will have been made into films. Edwin Torres is a Justice with the Supreme Court of the State of New York.