Justin Halpern

Justin Halpern is an American television producer and author best known for the “Shit My Dad Says” series of novels. He grew up in San Diego in the Point Loma neighborhood to an Italian American mother and a Jewish father. Halpern went to Point Loma High School, where he started honing his interest in baseball by playing as a pitcher. He then proceeded to San Diego State University and during his time there played on the baseball team. Once he was done with school, he moved to Los Angeles where he found work as a screenwriter. His father practiced as a medical doctor of nuclear medicine at the University of California before he retired. He was a blunt man that said whatever he wanted and from his childhood, Justin got a ton of expletive laden but memorable comments and advice from his father. The elder Halpern has been described as a scatological Socrates, a profane comic genius who showered his son with unparalleled wisdom.