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About Ed I
was born at a very young age in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, N.Y., the son
of an Italian fireman and an Irish colleen from Lowell, Mass. I spent summers playing stickball and
going to Ebbets Field and the rest of the year in Good Shepherd grammar school
and with the saintly Christian Brothers at St. Augustine Diocesan High School.
In
those days one could graduate from high school on Feb. 1, which I did, and when
my father announced he was retiring and moving us to Los Angeles, I worked on
Wall Street until June, when my sister finished her semester at St. Brendan's
High School. Although I had been accepted to Manhattan College and Notre Dame
University, I decided I would go to Loyola University in L.A. However, when I took the exam for
Loyola in August, I had forgotten one point's worth of high school information
and flunked it.
The
rest of my education was spent in various local colleges studying pre-med and
engineering. (If I'd managed to
get anything higher than a "C" in chemistry, I'd be a doctor now.) I
worked for a while for North American Aviation as a designer on the Atlas
missile booster and sustainer engines, but knew deep down I was really F. Scott
Fitzgerald, so I got a job at a local newspaper.
The
rest, as they say, is really boring. Suffice it that I'm now a member of the
AuthorÕs Guild, Inc.; the AuthorÕs League of America; and, with my collaborator
Mick Curran, the Writers Guild of America/West. I've written a dozen screenplays; have had two of them
optioned; and have been a professional writer all my life. I've had twelve books published,
including three novels; have ghost-written books and speeches; written various
articles on travel, transportation, sports, medicine and health; two TV
scripts; many industrial videotapes; and am currently negotiating with film
producers for the rights to two optioned screenplays.
I've
been a newspaperman and movie columnist in Los Angeles; a science correspondent
for McGraw-Hill World news; an editor of a trade journal; an acquisitions
editor for Chilton Publishing; an advertising/public relations writer and
executive for various agencies in San Francisco; and ran my own marketing
communications agency for 10 years. Most recently I was the Executive Editor of
five Marin County weekly newspapers.
I
live in Mill Valley, Calif. with my wife, Jovita, in the same house for 35
years, in which we raised two wonderful girls who turned into fabulous women
and mothers.
Oh
yeahÉI just completed a new novel, a 100,000-word medical thriller about the
first brain transplant. The book is based on fact, loosely extrapolating work
currently being done with chimpanzees.
I'm looking for an agent to represent it.
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LOW & OUTSIDE, Coward-McCann, 1965. The Autobiography of a Minor League Baseball Player. ----------------------- Editorial History
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