Gil Reavill
1953
Gil Reavill is a renowned novelist, screenwriter, and journalist from The United States, who is popular for writing crime fiction, nonfiction, and mystery novels. His work has featured in various forms of media. Author Gil is particularly famous for writing the Lady Remington series and several popular standalone novels. He has also penned a few books as a ghostwriter. Author Gil was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, United States. He received his education from the Wisconsin-Madison University and the Colorado University. Immediately after obtaining his degree, Gil started working for daily newspapers in Colorado. In 1981, he moved to New York and started trying his hand at writing stories. Initially, he used to do ghostwriting for the Screw magazine’s publisher named Al Goldstein. Gil continued with the ghostwriting work throughout the 1980s. Based on his experience of those days, he came up with the his first nonfiction book called Smut. Gil was also involved in writing plays that were produced in the off-off-Broadway venues in the 80s. Gil has written many articles on true-crime that featured in Maxim between 1998 and 2004. He continued writing nonfiction stories and published the books, Aftermath, Raising Our Athletic Daughters, etc. The latter was written in collaboration with his novelist wife named Jean Zimmerman. Starting from 2002, author Gil teamed up with Eric Saks for writing the screenplay for the movie Dirty. The team yielded a few other screenplays that were either in-development or optioned. Dirty was directed by Chris Fisher and featured the lead actors as Cuba Gooding, Jr., Wyclef Jean, Clifton Collins, Jr., etc.
Publication Order
Standalone Books
This Land is No Stranger(With: Sarah Hollister)
2021