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David Black is an award-winning American author, screenwriter and journalist. He has published eleven books and over 150 articles in ''The Atlantic, NY Times Magazine, Harper's and Rolling Stone''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Black - Biography |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0085242/bio/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=David Black |url=https://www.davidblackwriter.com/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.davidblackwriter.com}}</ref>


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His books include:


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* ''Impossible Life'' about Jewish gangsters<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Black - An Impossible Life |url=https://www.davidblackwriter.com/an_impossible_life_96409.htm |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.davidblackwriter.com}}</ref>
* ''The Extinction Event''<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Black - The Extinction Event |url=https://www.davidblackwriter.com/the_extinction_event_96408.htm |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.davidblackwriter.com}}</ref>
* ''Fast Shuffle''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fast Shuffle: A Novel |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168749-fast-shuffle |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Like Father''
* ''The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont''<ref>{{Cite web |date=1982-04-01 |title=The King of Fifth Avenue, by David Black |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-sarna-3/the-king-of-fifth-avenue-by-david-black/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Commentary Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Black |first=David |url=http://archive.org/details/kingoffifthavenu00blac |title=The King of Fifth Avenue : the fortunes of August Belmont |date=1981 |publisher=New York : Dial Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-385-27194-3}}</ref>
** New York Times review<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=John |date=1981-10-25 |title=SUCCESS STORY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/25/books/success-story.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
** New York Times Notable Book 1981<ref>{{Cite news |date=1981-12-06 |title=NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/06/books/notable-books-of-the-year.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* ''The Plague Years: A Chronicle of AIDS, the Epidemic of Our Times''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Plague Years: A Chronicle of AIDS, the Epidemic of … |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6641349-the-plague-years |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}</ref>


TV screenwriting credits:


* ''Hill Street Blues''
* ''Law & Order''
* ''100 Centre Street''
* ''The Education of Max Bickford''
* ''Monk''
* ''CSI-Miami''
* ''Miami Vice''
* TV movie: ''Legacy of Lies''
* ''The Confession''


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'''David Black''' is an American journalist, biographer, novelist and screenwriter''.''<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |date=2016-11-30 |title=David Black |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&issn=&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CH1000008986&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |language=English}}</ref> His investigative journalism has appeared in ''The New York Times Magazine, New York'' and ''Harper's'' among other periodicals. He received the ] for Reporting from the American Society of Magazine Editors for his two-part article on the AIDS epidemic, “The Plague Years,” published in ''Rolling'' ''Stone'' in 1985.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |title=National Magazine Awards go to 13 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/30/nyregion/national-magazine-awards-go-to-13.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150524194706/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/30/nyregion/national-magazine-awards-go-to-13.html |archive-date=2015-05-24 |access-date=2024-12-11 |language=en}}</ref> Black’s twelve books include ''The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont'', a biography of the influential 19th century banker that was one of 1981’s ''New York Times'' Notable Books.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=John |date=1981-10-25 |title=Success Story |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/25/books/success-story.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1981-12-06 |title=Notable Books of the Year |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/06/books/notable-books-of-the-year.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He has written and produced television programming for the police and courtroom dramas “],” “],” “],” “Cop Shop,” Sydney Lumet’s “100 Centre Street,” and “],” co-writing the first on-air episode of “Law & Order” in 1990, as well as writing later episodes. In 2000, Black’s script for the television drama “The Confession” received the ] for best long-form adapted screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=King |first=Susan |date=March 6, 2020 |title='American Beauty', 'Election,' Honored by Writers Guild |work=Los Angeles Times |pages=F2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Leonard |first=John |date=1999-03-29 |title=Call Me Responsible - Nymag |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/reviews/295/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=New York Magazine |language=en}}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
David Black (born April 21, 1945) graduated from Classical High School in Springfield, MA in 1963 and ] in Amherst, MA, in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Republican |first=Chris Dondoros {{!}} Special to The |date=2016-10-19 |title=Award-winning author David Black returning to former Classical High School |url=https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2016/10/award-winning_author_david_bla.html |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=masslive |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Terry Y. |date= |title=The Executive Producer |journal=Amherst |volume=Spring 1995 |pages=11}}</ref> At Amherst, he was a student of poet and playwright ], about whom he later wrote the essay “Me and MacLeish”.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Me and MacLeish |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/me-and-macleish/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=City Journal |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Black began his career in the 1970s as a journalist, and his work has subsequently appeared in the ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Granta'', ''Harper’s'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''New York'', ''Playboy'', ''New Times, Rolling Stone'', and the ''Village Voice''. His articles cover subjects related to arts and culture such as “Commune Children,” ; along with long-form investigative pieces such as “The Making of a Doctor,” and the award-winning two-part article “The Plague Years” .<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Peckman |first1=Jodi |title=Fifty Years of Rolling Stone: The Music, Politics and People that Changed Our Culture |last2=Levy |first2=Joe |publisher=Abrams Books |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-41972-446-6 |edition=Illustrated |pages=123 |language=English}}</ref>

From 1982 to 1986, Black taught at ] as a writer-in-residence, almost forty years later writing the essay “Baldwin and Me” about his colleague there, James Baldwin.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Black |first=David |date=Autumn 2017 |title=Baldwin and Me |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/baldwin-and-me/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=City Journal |language=en}}</ref>

In the late 1980s, Black went to work as a television scriptwriter, story editor, and producer, contributing to multiple television shows and series over the next two decades, concentrating primarily on police procedurals and courtroom dramas. Programs have included ''Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Law & Order, The Cosby Mysteries, Cop Shop'',<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 6, 2004 |title=Cop Shop |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |quote=Writer and Executive Producer Black presented a less glamorous, more realistic approach to law enforcers. The result was fresh and revealing. Stripped of their false bravado, we find that cops can be as impulsive, chatty or morally ambivalent as any of us.}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Holston |first=Noel |date=October 6, 2004 |title=Line Gets Redrawn |url=https://www.newsday.com |website=Newsday.com |quote=David Black, a novelist and screenwriter some of the best cop series of the past three decades, including ‘Hill Street Blues'.}}</ref> ''CSI Miami'', and Sydney Lumet’s ''100 Centre Street''.<ref name=":2" />

During the course of his career, Black has written six novels--''Like Father,''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cheuse |first=Alan |date=1978-11-19 |title=Riction Roundup |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/19/archives/fiction-roundup-authors-query.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ''Minds, Peep Show, An Impossible Life'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fisher |first=Barbara |date=1998-09-27 |title=Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry; Tea With God |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/27/books/books-in-brief-fiction-poetry-tea-with-god.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ''The Extinction Event'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 June 2024 |title=The Extinction Event by David Black |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780765322616 |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref> and ''Fast Shuffle''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-black/fast-shuffle/ |title=Fast Shuffle {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}</ref>-- and six nonfiction books in diverse genres including biography, medicine, and true crime: ''Ekstasy, Murder at the Met, The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmon''t,<ref name=":5" /> ''Medicine Man, The Plague Years'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 June 2024 |title=The Plague Years: A Chronicle of AIDS, the Epidemic of Our Times by David Black |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780671612245 |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref> and ''Ripped'' ''Apart''.

In  2006, Black collaborated with Shakespeare scholar ], joint editor of ], to produce the first theatrical reading of Taylor’s reconstruction of “The History of Cardenio”, considered one of William Shakespeare’s lost plays. Black gathered Oscar- and Tony-winning actors ], ] and ] to participate In the New York reading. Black and Taylor later produced a staged performance of “The History of Cardenio” at the ] in Williamstown, MA.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Campbell |date=1 March 2006 |title=TV's Hand in Refashioning Shakespeare |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/arts/01iht-shake.html |url-status= |work=The New York Times}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |last=Bourus |first=Terri |date=6 September 2012 |editor-last=Carnegie |editor-first=David & Gary Taylor |title='May I Be Metamorphosed': Cardenio by Stages |work=The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=388–402 |isbn=9780199641819}}</ref>

== Awards and Honors ==
Black’s short story, “Laud”, published by the ''Atlantic Monthly'' in January 1973, received an Atlantic “First” Award.<ref>“Laud” by David Black, an Atlantic “First” Award, January 1973. https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1973/01/231-1/132566059.pdf</ref> In 1981, his biography ''The King of Fifth Avenue'' was named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book.<ref name=":5" /> “The Plague Years”, a two-part investigative article about the AIDS epidemic published in ''Rolling Stone'' in 1985, won a National Magazine Award for Reporting from the American Society of Magazine Editors.<ref name=":4" /> That same year, ''Murder at the Met'', Black’s nonfiction thriller about the death of a young violinist in New York City, received an ] nomination from the Mystery Writers of America for the best book of fact-based crime. His ] episode “Carrier” also was Edgar Award-nominated for best episode in a TV series.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Search the Edgars Database! {{!}} Edgar® Awards Info & Database |url=https://edgarawards.com/search-the-database/ |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=edgarawards.com}}</ref> In 2000, Black won the Writers Guild Award for best adapted long-form screenplay for his script “The Confession,” adapted from the novel ''Fertig'' by ].  The film starred Amy Irving, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Kingsley.<ref name=":6" />

== Personal life ==
Black married Deborah Hughes Keen in 1968, and they subsequently divorced. In 1996, Black married ].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hotchner |first=A.E. |title=Everyone Comes to Elaine's: Forty Years of Movie Stars, All-Stars, Literary Lions, Financial Scions, Top Cops, Politicians, and Power Brokers at the Legendary Hot Spot |date=March 2004 |publisher=It Books |year=2004 |isbn=978-0060538187 |pages=200–201}}</ref> He has three adult children.

Black is a member of the Century Association, the Players, and the Explorers Club.


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David Black is an American journalist, biographer, novelist and screenwriter. His investigative journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York and Harper's among other periodicals. He received the National Magazine Award for Reporting from the American Society of Magazine Editors for his two-part article on the AIDS epidemic, “The Plague Years,” published in Rolling Stone in 1985. Black’s twelve books include The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont, a biography of the influential 19th century banker that was one of 1981’s New York Times Notable Books. He has written and produced television programming for the police and courtroom dramas “Hill Street Blues,” “Miami Vice,” “CSI Miami,” “Cop Shop,” Sydney Lumet’s “100 Centre Street,” and “Law & Order,” co-writing the first on-air episode of “Law & Order” in 1990, as well as writing later episodes. In 2000, Black’s script for the television drama “The Confession” received the Writers Guild Award for best long-form adapted screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.

Early life and education

David Black (born April 21, 1945) graduated from Classical High School in Springfield, MA in 1963 and Amherst College in Amherst, MA, in 1967. At Amherst, he was a student of poet and playwright Archibald MacLeish, about whom he later wrote the essay “Me and MacLeish”.

Career

Black began his career in the 1970s as a journalist, and his work has subsequently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Granta, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, New York, Playboy, New Times, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice. His articles cover subjects related to arts and culture such as “Commune Children,” ; along with long-form investigative pieces such as “The Making of a Doctor,” and the award-winning two-part article “The Plague Years” .

From 1982 to 1986, Black taught at Mount Holyoke College as a writer-in-residence, almost forty years later writing the essay “Baldwin and Me” about his colleague there, James Baldwin.

In the late 1980s, Black went to work as a television scriptwriter, story editor, and producer, contributing to multiple television shows and series over the next two decades, concentrating primarily on police procedurals and courtroom dramas. Programs have included Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Law & Order, The Cosby Mysteries, Cop Shop, CSI Miami, and Sydney Lumet’s 100 Centre Street.

During the course of his career, Black has written six novels--Like Father, Minds, Peep Show, An Impossible Life, The Extinction Event, and Fast Shuffle-- and six nonfiction books in diverse genres including biography, medicine, and true crime: Ekstasy, Murder at the Met, The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont, Medicine Man, The Plague Years, and Ripped Apart.

In  2006, Black collaborated with Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor, joint editor of The Oxford Shakespeare, to produce the first theatrical reading of Taylor’s reconstruction of “The History of Cardenio”, considered one of William Shakespeare’s lost plays. Black gathered Oscar- and Tony-winning actors Richard Dreyfuss, Whoopi Goldberg and James Naughton to participate In the New York reading. Black and Taylor later produced a staged performance of “The History of Cardenio” at the Williamstown Theater in Williamstown, MA.

Awards and Honors

Black’s short story, “Laud”, published by the Atlantic Monthly in January 1973, received an Atlantic “First” Award. In 1981, his biography The King of Fifth Avenue was named a New York Times Notable Book. “The Plague Years”, a two-part investigative article about the AIDS epidemic published in Rolling Stone in 1985, won a National Magazine Award for Reporting from the American Society of Magazine Editors. That same year, Murder at the Met, Black’s nonfiction thriller about the death of a young violinist in New York City, received an Edgar Alan Poe Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America for the best book of fact-based crime. His Law & Order episode “Carrier” also was Edgar Award-nominated for best episode in a TV series. In 2000, Black won the Writers Guild Award for best adapted long-form screenplay for his script “The Confession,” adapted from the novel Fertig by Sol Yurick.  The film starred Amy Irving, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Kingsley.

Personal life

Black married Deborah Hughes Keen in 1968, and they subsequently divorced. In 1996, Black married Barbara Weisberg. He has three adult children.

Black is a member of the Century Association, the Players, and the Explorers Club.

References

  1. ^ "David Black". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. 2016-11-30.
  2. ^ "National Magazine Awards go to 13". Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
  3. ^ Brooks, John (1981-10-25). "Success Story". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  4. "Notable Books of the Year". The New York Times. 1981-12-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  5. ^ King, Susan (March 6, 2020). "'American Beauty', 'Election,' Honored by Writers Guild". Los Angeles Times. pp. F2.
  6. Leonard, John (1999-03-29). "Call Me Responsible - Nymag". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
  7. Republican, Chris Dondoros | Special to The (2016-10-19). "Award-winning author David Black returning to former Classical High School". masslive. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  8. Allen, Terry Y. "The Executive Producer". Amherst. Spring 1995: 11.
  9. "Me and MacLeish". City Journal. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  10. Peckman, Jodi; Levy, Joe (2017). Fifty Years of Rolling Stone: The Music, Politics and People that Changed Our Culture (Illustrated ed.). Abrams Books. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-41972-446-6.
  11. Black, David (Autumn 2017). "Baldwin and Me". City Journal. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  12. "Cop Shop". The Hollywood Reporter. October 6, 2004. Writer and Executive Producer Black presented a less glamorous, more realistic approach to law enforcers. The result was fresh and revealing. Stripped of their false bravado, we find that cops can be as impulsive, chatty or morally ambivalent as any of us.
  13. Holston, Noel (October 6, 2004). "Line Gets Redrawn". Newsday.com. David Black, a novelist and screenwriter some of the best cop series of the past three decades, including 'Hill Street Blues'.
  14. Cheuse, Alan (1978-11-19). "Riction Roundup". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  15. Fisher, Barbara (1998-09-27). "Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry; Tea With God". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  16. "The Extinction Event by David Black". www.publishersweekly.com. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  17. Fast Shuffle | Kirkus Reviews.
  18. "The Plague Years: A Chronicle of AIDS, the Epidemic of Our Times by David Black". www.publishersweekly.com. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  19. Robertson, Campbell (1 March 2006). "TV's Hand in Refashioning Shakespeare". The New York Times.
  20. Bourus, Terri (6 September 2012). Carnegie, David & Gary Taylor (ed.). "'May I Be Metamorphosed': Cardenio by Stages". The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play. Oxford University Press. pp. 388–402. ISBN 9780199641819.
  21. “Laud” by David Black, an Atlantic “First” Award, January 1973. https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1973/01/231-1/132566059.pdf
  22. "Search the Edgars Database! | Edgar® Awards Info & Database". edgarawards.com. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  23. Hotchner, A.E. (March 2004). Everyone Comes to Elaine's: Forty Years of Movie Stars, All-Stars, Literary Lions, Financial Scions, Top Cops, Politicians, and Power Brokers at the Legendary Hot Spot. It Books. pp. 200–201. ISBN 978-0060538187.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

External Links

David Black Website

David Black on IMDb

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