Language English Notable works House of Secrets Citizenship U.S. Name Lowell Cauffiel | Genre Non-fiction, fiction Role Author Subject Crime Movies Fire with Fire | |
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Occupation Journalist, author, screenwriter Children Jessica Cauffiel, John Cauffiel Books House of secrets, Forever And Five Days, Masquerade, Eye of the Beholder, Marker Similar People Jessica Cauffiel, David Barrett, 50 Cent, George Furla, Randall Emmett | ||
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Lowell Joseph Cauffiel (born 1951) is an American true crime author, novelist, screenwriter and film and television producer.
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- Producer director duo jonathan heap lowell cauffiel support the midnight mission
- Life and career
- Novels
- Non fiction
- Filmography
- References
Life and career
Cauffiel was born in Michigan, the son of Ursula Irene (née Zulka), a Polish-American community leader, and Lowell Cauffiel, an aeronautical engineer and entrepreneur. A 1974 journalism graduate of Wayne State University, Cauffiel began his writing career as a contributor to music magazines, including Rolling Stone, Creem and Guitar Player. He went on to become an award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine during the 1970s and 1980s. Cauffiel began his bookwriting career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title and the 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets have appeared on critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he is known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style. Thematically, Cauffiel's books often explore how people embrace popular trends and exalt American values to hide their own dark intentions and destructive acts.
In the mid-1990s, Cauffiel wrote three fiction titles. He performed as a blues guitarist with the Progressive Blues Band in Motor City nightclubs.
The New York Times 1988 review called Cauffiel's book Masquerade an "excellent account of one man's flirtation with a twilight zone of his own making."
In 2002, Cauffiel began writing and producing crime documentaries. In 2003 Cauffiel, he relocated from Michigan to Los Angeles to write for film and create series television. He's developed film and television projects with, among others, Billy Crystal, David Schwimmer, Michael Medavoy, Kiefer Sutherland, Kathryn Morris and Michael Douglas.
Cauffiel is a surfer and motorcyclist. He has worked in alcohol and drug rehabilitation as a volunteer and headed a research grant about alcohol problems among young people for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for the National Institutes of Health. He's the co-founder of Primary Purpose Productions, a non-profit production company that creates short films about addicts and alcoholics in recovery. Cauffiel's directing debut with Primary Purpose, Men In A Box, starring Kurtwood Smith, was a selection at several American film festivals.
His daughter is actress Jessica Cauffiel. His son, John, under the stage name Johnny Coolati, is the lead guitarist and singer for the Brooklyn-based rock trio Call of the Wild, signed to Kemado Records.