Dirk Wittenborn

American writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican writer
PlacesUnited States of America
isScreenwriter Writer Novelist
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio Literature
Gender
Male
Birth1952, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Age73 years
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Notable Works
Pharmakon 
The details

Biography

Dirk Wittenborn (born 1952 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American screenwriter and novelist.

Biography

Wittenborn was born into a family of scientists. He has two older sisters and an older brother. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and started writing in the early 1980s while working at Saturday Night Live. Wittenborn is married and has a child, Lilo Wittenborn. His nephew is James Wittenborn "Jamie" Johnson, a film director, with whom he produced the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Born Rich.

Works

Fiction

  • Pharmakon (2008)
  • Fierce People (2002), cinematized in 2005 under the same name.
  • Zoë (1983) (republished 2004 as Catwalk)
  • Eclipse (1980)

Nonfiction

  • "The Social Climber's Bible" (2014)
  • Bongo Europa (2006)

Film

  • The Lucky Ones (2008)
  • Fierce People (2005)
  • Born Rich (2003) (producer)
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