Michael Tolkin

When I was thirteen it was easy to read Tolstoy and Ian Fleming in the same night and not feel that there was anything in conflict. Ray Bradbury autographed my copy of R is For Rocket at a bookstore in Beverly Hills, up the street from the hobby shop where I used to see Rod Serling, and talked to him once. I hope my taste in books is still early adolescent, but I can't read as many pages in a night as I used to. My novels: The Player, Among The Dead, Under Radar, Return of the Player, NK3. I wrote the screenplay for the Robert Altman adaptation of The Player and won the Writers Guild Award, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, PEN Award, Academy Award nomination, and the Edgar Allen Poe award, which is a hand painted cheap bust of the master, and I fear for it in an earthquake.