Author Biography
After graduating from the University of Maryland, Peter Mehlman, a New York native, became a writer for the Washington Post. He slid to television in 1982, writing for SportsBeat with Howard Cosell. He then returned to writing full sentences for numerous national publications including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and a slew of women s magazines due to his advanced understanding of that gender.One year after moving to Los Angeles, he wrote The Apartment, the first freelance script produced by Seinfeld. Over the run of the show, Mehlman rose to executive producer and coined such Seinfeld-isms as Yada Yada, spongeworthy, shrinkage and double dipping. In 1997, Mehlman joined DreamWorks and created It s like, you know, a scathing look at Los Angeles. In recent years, he has written screenplays and humor pieces for NPR, Esquire, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, several of which were published in his collection Mandela Was Late. In addition, he has appeared on-camera for TNT sports and the Webby-nominated Narrow World of Sports. He lives in Los Angeles. This is his first novel.
