Joel O ShapiroBorn on the Upper West Side, Joel grew up in Portland before fleeing to San Francisco, where he made movies and learned to write scripts. Back in New York City, Joel found a supportive wife and an expensive Columbia University MFA. The City of Angelsdrew Joel back West where he plied a trade as a reader, writer, and script consultant before family brought him up the I-5 to Eugene, where he now lives with his wife, kids, and cats. When Joel's not writing books or screenplays, he's smoking Cubans, shooting guns, riding bikes (or motorcycles), and sometimes he drives a classic convertible. Read More Read Less