Jeff Gottesfeld (www.jeffgottesfeldwrites.com) is an American novelist, screen and television writer, and playwright. He writes for young people and grownups, and has a lot of publishing pseudonyms. Some of them you'd expect. Some, you might not. Gottesfeld grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, attended Teaneck High School, Colby College, and then the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was president of his class and a member of the law review. But he only practiced law for less than a year before turning to publishing and writing as a career.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 and trends in young adult fiction. Among his favorite adult authors are Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Wouk, and George Orwell. Fave YA authors include Jerry Spinelli, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Robert Cormier.He has written for such television shows as Smallville, The Young and the Restless, and As the World Turns. He co-wrote Toby Keith's feature Broken Bridges for Paramount. As one-half of the writing team behind the original ten The A-List books by Zoey Dean, he made a lot of teens happy and a lot of their parents wonder why their teen daughters were burying themselves in books.After the itinerant life of a writer, he now lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.