- Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg (1962-)is a
novelist andtelevision writer whose TVscripting and producing credits include "Diagnosis Murder ", "A Nero Wolfe Mystery ", "Hunter ", "Spenser For Hire ", "She-Wolf of London ", "SeaQuest ", "1-800-Missing ", "Martial Law" and "Monk". He most recently wrote and produced the movie/pilot "Fast Track: No Limits", which stars Erin Cahill, Andrew Walker, Alexia Barlier, and Joseph Beattie. The movie was shot entirely on location in Berlin and aired in Germany on February 2008. It has since been released theatrically in China and on DVD in Spain and Japan.Goldberg has written several novels based on shows that he has written and/or produced, specifically "Diagnosis Murder" and "Monk". He has written eight "Diagnosis Murder" novels. The final novel in the series, "The Last Word", was published in May 2007.
He has written the Monk novels "
Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse " (which he adapted into the Monk TV episode "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing"), "Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii ", "Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu ", "Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants ", "Mr. Monk in Outer Space ", and "Mr. Monk Goes to Germany ", which will be published onJuly 2 2008 . His next Monk novel, "Mr. Monk is Miserable " will be published in December 2008.His other novels include "My Gun Has Bullets", "Beyond the Beyond", ".357 Vigilante" (as Ian Ludlow) and "The Man with the Iron-On Badge", which was nominated for the 2006
Shamus Award for Best Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. He contributed the short story "Jack Webb's Star" to the anthology "Hollywood and Crime".Goldberg has also written a number of nonfiction books, including "
Unsold Television Pilots " (the basis for the ABC special "The Best TV Shows That Never Were " and the CBS special "The Greatest Shows You Never Saw") and "Successful Television Writing" (co-written with William Rabkin).He is currently on the board of the Mystery Writers of America and founded, with novelist
Max Allan Collins , the [http://www.iamtw.org International Association of Media Tie-in Writers] .Notable German TV critic Julian Miller of Quotenmeter has called him "the Master of all Genres".
He is the older brother of novelist
Tod Goldberg and authors Linda Woods and Karen Dinino, as well as the nephew of true crime writerBurl Barer .External links
* [http://www.leegoldberg.com/index.html Lee Goldberg's Official Website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325251/ IMDb Page]
* [http://www.diagnosis-murder.com/index.html Lee Goldberg's Diagnosis Murder Website]
* [http://www.earthprime.com/interviews/lee-goldberg.html Interview with Lee Goldberg] at [http://www.earthprime.com/ Earth Prime]
* [http://www.eviltwinltd.com/Monk/interview6.htm Interview with Lee Goldberg at The Monk Fun Page]
* [http://www.storylink.com/article/188 Interview with Lee Goldberg at Storylink]
* [http://www.quotenmeter.de/index.php?newsid=25453 Quotenmeter review of FAST TRACK NO LIMITS]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325251/ Lee Goldberg's complete credits at IMDB]
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