Lynn Lauber · CC BY-SA 2.5

A writer and teacher whose coming-of-age novel Me and Orson Welles became a film praised by The New York Times as "nimble, likable and smart," and who spent much of his career teaching English and film studies at a New Jersey high school while writing comedy for NPR alongside nine books. In 2026 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Blue Moon.