I was born in New York City and raised five minutes from the Bronx. Once I'd completed my graduate work I returned to teach at my alma mater, Scarborough School. During my four years there I completed a novel a year and, because in the Seventies it was impossible to get an editor to read without an agent, and conversely impossible to get an agent without having been published, I decided to move to England, ostensibly for one year. Knowing that most novelists in Britain were also writing for what was then very much a writers' market in British television, I came to London with an original teleplay which helped me find a theatre/TV/film agent within my first month there. Through her I inherited an agent for my fiction with whom she was associated. One year stretched out to five, and in 1985 my first novel, The Man from Marseille, was published in London, and a year later in the U.S., to which I, my wife and our dual-citizenship daughter, had returned a few years earlier.

I was commissioned to adapt that title for an independent film company in Britain, though the film itself remains unproduced. Following the publication of my fifth novel, Breathless, I took a long hiatus from writing fiction and concentrated on screenwriting. My script "Chasing Daylight" placed in a number of screenwriting competitions (including the Nicholl Fellowships), and for three years I worked in association with a writing partner on two further scripts. I continue to work with her on ongoing screenwriting projects.

I have now just completed two new novels and, in the screenwriting realm, I am attached to write an original screenplay for Circle of Confusion Productions.

My published works are:

Breathless (New York: Viking Penguin, 1995; Books on Tape, 1995; and forthcoming in Japan, Kodansha Ltd.)

The Discovery of Light (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992; Penguin paperback, 1993). A Barnes & Noble Discover title, 1992

The Blue Hour (New York: British American Publishing, 1989)

Body and Soul (New York: Grove Press, 1987)

The Man from Marseille (London: John Murray, 1985; and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1986)