Nationality American Movies Careful What You Wish For Role Author | Name Gregg Hurwitz Genre Crime | |
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Occupation novelist and comic book writer Alma mater Harvard University, Trinity College, Oxford Notable works Batman: The Dark Knight
Foolkiller: White Angels
Penguin: Pain and Prejudice
Punisher Education Harvard University, Trinity College, Oxford Nominations CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Books They're Watching, I See You, Orphan X, The Program, Minutes to Burn Similar People Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Ashok Amritraj, Bradley Gallo, Michael Helfant Profiles | ||
Thriller and comic book writer an interview with gregg hurwitz
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz is an American author of crime novels and comic books.
Contents
- Thriller and comic book writer an interview with gregg hurwitz
- A Conversation Between Scott Brick Gregg Hurwitz
- Personal life and education
- Career
- References
A Conversation Between Scott Brick & Gregg Hurwitz
Personal life and education
Hurwitz grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. While completing a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University (1995) and a master's from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy (1996), he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for pole vaulting and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox Fellow.
Hurwitz lives in Los Angeles. He is married and has two daughters.
Career
Hurwitz is the author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, The Crime Writer, Trust No One, Don't Look Back, and Orphan X. His books have been shortlisted for best novel of the year by the International Thriller Writers, nominated for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, chosen as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, honored as Book Sense Picks, and translated into 28 languages.
He wrote the original screenplay for the film The Book of Henry (2017), directed by Collin Trevorrow for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and filmed in New York. The cast includes Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace and Dean Norris.
He has written screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Studios, MGM, and ESPN, as well as developed television series for Warner Bros. and Lakeshore Entertainment. His 2016 novel, Orphan X, was picked up by Warner Bros. with Bradley Cooper on to direct and possibly star in the film. Hurwitz will write the screenplay adaptation. Hurwitz has also written Wolverine, The Punisher, and Foolkiller for Marvel Comics, and published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare. He has taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA and Harvard. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has snuck onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swam with sharks in the Galápagos Islands, and gone undercover into mind-control cults. He has written and produced season two of the TV show V.
He became the writer of Batman: The Dark Knight for DC Comics in 2012.