Favorite writers
by bso0034-125-878236 | created - 28 Jan 2012 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicRandom Order
1. J.J. Abrams
Producer | Lost
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....
2. Stephen King
Writer | Maximum Overdrive
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name ...
3. Jerome Bixby
Writer | The Man from Earth
Jerome Bixby was born on January 11, 1923 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was a writer and composer, known for The Man from Earth (2007), Star Trek (1966) and Fantastic Voyage (1966). He died on April 28, 1998 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
4. Tim Kring
Producer | Heroes
Tim Kring was born on July 9, 1957 in El Dorado County, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Heroes (2006), Chicago Hope (1994) and The Conspiracy for Good: London 2010 (2010).
5. Rod Serling
Writer | The Twilight Zone
A former boxer, paratrooper and general all-around angry young man, Rod Serling was one of the radical new voices that made the "Golden Age" of television. Long before The Twilight Zone (1959), he was known for writing such high-quality scripts as "Patterns" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight," both ...
6. Paddy Chayefsky
Writer | Marty
Author, producer, and composer who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from CCNY, then a Purple Heart during World War II while serving in the US Army. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborators included George Bassman and Harry Warren. His popular-song compositions include "Marty" and ...
7. Raymond Chandler
Writer | Double Indemnity
An American novelist, writer of crime fiction featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe, Raymond (Thornton) Chandler was born in Chicago of an American father and an Anglo-Irish mother. He moved to England when his parents divorced. He attended Dulwich College and studied languages in France ...
8. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
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9. Blake Edwards
Writer | The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Blake Edwards' stepfather's father J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen director, and his stepfather Jack McEdward was a stage director and movie production manager. Blake acted in a number films, beginning with Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) and wrote a number of others, beginning with ...
10. James Wan
Writer | Saw
James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...
11. Astrid Lindgren
Writer | Ronja Rövardotter
Grew up in Småland outside Vimmerby in the south of Sweden. Her first book came out in 1944, and she made a breakthrough the following year with the stories about Pippi Longstocking. Countless stories about Pippi and other characters of Astrid's imagination and excellent story telling ability were ...
12. Ellis Kaut
Writer | Sehnsucht hat mich verführt
Ellis Kaut was born on November 17, 1920 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was a writer, known for Sehnsucht hat mich verführt (1958), Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl (2023) and Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl (1982). She was married to Kurt Preis. She died on September 24, 2015 in Munich, Bavaria, ...
13. Molière
Writer | Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Born between January 13 and January 15 of the year 1622, from a 25yo tapestry-maker, Jean Poguelin (who worked for the King of France from 1631), and a 20yo woman, Marie Cresé, in Paris, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin lost his mother when he was 10. From 1638 to 1640, he studied in the Jesuit college of ...
14. William Shakespeare
Writer | The Tragedy of Macbeth
William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an ...
15. Nikos Tsiforos
Writer | Teleftaia apostoli
Nikos Tsiforos was born in 1912 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a writer and director, known for The Last Mission (1949), Gypsy Blood (1956) and The Money Rich (1958). He died on August 6, 1970 in Athens, Greece.
16. Iakovos Kabanellis
Writer | To kanoni kai t' aidoni
Iakovos Kabanellis was born on December 2, 1922 in Hora, Naxos, Greece. He was a writer and director, known for The Cannon and the Nightingale (1968), Snow White and the 7 Bachelors (1960) and Stella (1955). He died on March 29, 2011 in Athens, Greece.
17. Antonis Samarakis
Writer | Epistrofi
Antonis Samarakis was born on August 16, 1919 in Athens, Greece. He was a writer and actor, known for Epistrofi (1965), The River (1960) and La faille (1975). He died on August 8, 2003 in Pilos, Greece.
18. Roy Huggins
Writer | The Fugitive
Roy Huggins was born on July 18, 1914 in Litelle, Washington, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Fugitive (1993), City of Angels (1976) and U.S. Marshals (1998). He was married to Adele Mara and Bonnie Marie Porter. He died on April 3, 2002 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
19. William Goldman
Writer | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Screenwriter, novelist, playwright, non-fiction author. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, USA, began his career as a novelist in 1957. Started writing screenplays in 1965 with "Masquerade". A two-time Academy Award Winner, he is one of the most successful screenwriters and script doctors in ...
20. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Director | Das Leben der Anderen
As the son of a Lufthansa manager, Henckel von Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels, where he passed his international high school diploma in 1991. He then spent two years studying in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) with the following ...
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