Yancy Lawyer book

Dale Illig a copy of Yancy Lawyer, the novel he finished and published for his father Carl Illig. Photo by Abbey Archer

Dale Illig a copy of Yancy Lawyer, the novel he finished and published for his father Carl Illig. Photo by Abbey Archer

Yancy Lawyer published

After sitting unpublished for 73 years, Carl Illig’s novel Yancy Lawyer is finally in print thanks to his son, Dale, who fulfilled his father’s wish to someday publish the manuscript.Dale — an accomplished retired Georgetown lawyer and the president of the W.D.