Lisa Lutz
1970
Lisa Lutz is one of the New York Times bestselling author from America who has written several highly successful books based on the crime, comedy, humor, and fiction genres. Initially, she started her career doing screenwriting for Hollywood movies. One of the screenplays that she had written was rejected, after which she decided to use it as the basis of her novel series. To everyone’s surprise, the series went on to become a bestseller and helped author Lutz establish herself among the prominent authors of her time. The series was based on a private investigator family known as the Spellmans. Author Lutz was born on March 13, 1970, in Southern California, The United States. She studied at a number of universities, including the UC Irvine, Leeds University, and UC Santa Cruz in England, as well as the San Francisco University in The United States. However, she was not able to obtain any degree. From the start of her career up to the 1990s, author Lutz had to survive by doing several low paying jobs. These included working at a private investigation company, where she used to spend most of her spare time in writing and rewriting a comedy series called as Plan B. The first screenplay that she wrote was optioned in the year 1997 and was adapted into a Hollywood movie released in the year 2001. The movie was declared by the Variety Magazine as being unfunny. After that, author Lutz went on to produce a few more tentative screenplays, but she could not find success in finding a buyer. Then she decided to make a final effort and completed writing the screenplay of ‘The Spellman Files’.