Howard Michael Gould
1962
Howard Michael Gould is a playwright and screenwriter that has been the executive producer and head writer of several TV series before he became an author. Gould was born in New York City and went to Amherst College in 1984, where he graduated with a bachelors in English. He gave up fiction writing while at Amherst, as he was convinced he was not good at it and instead concentrated on writing plays. He kept on writing plays and also directing them while he was in college and even after he was working in advertising. He got his foot in the door with plays on TV when he wrote a 30-minute comedy series that would stay on TV for more than ten years during which he was a showrunner. But then he wrote another play that Mike Nichols was interested in directing and this marked his entry into movies. He never pursued fiction writing for a few years after that as he was too busy with other projects in Hollywood.