Jeff Gottesfeld
Howard Jeffrey Gottesfeld is an American novelist, playwright, and screen and television writer.Biography
Gottesfeld grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, attended Teaneck High School, Colby College, and then the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Gottesfeld has written freelance for numerous magazines and newspapers, and continues to publish essays on such subjects as the ongoing controversy over the Confederate flag, immigration policy, and trends in young adult fiction. Among his favorite authors are Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Wouk, and George Orwell.
His fiction ranges from elementary age children to adult. For television, he has written for such shows as Smallville and The Young and the Restless. Songs for which he wrote the lyrics have been recorded by such country artists as Mitchell John. Together with Cherie Bennett, he has written under the pen name Zoey Dean. His first picture book is The Tree in the Courtyard, published by Random House/Knopf in March, 2016. It received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal.Television credits
The Young and the Restless
As the World Turns
Port Charles
Another World
Girls Got Game: 2006
Smallville: 2001 - 2002Films
Book Series
- Dawson's Creek
- Mirror Image
- Robinson's Hood
- Campus Confessions
Six Book Series
- University Hospital
- Teen Angels
- Trash
- 'Amen, L.A.'
- 'SuperFan!'
- 'SuperFan #2: Tag-Teamed!"
Other Books
- A Heart Divided
- Anne Frank And Me
- Turn Me On
- The Tree in the Courtyard
- No Steps Behind,
Plays
- 'A Heart Divided'
- 'Anne Frank and Me"
- '10 x 10'
- 'Does My Head Look Big in This?'
