Lee Goldberg

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Lee Goldberg, an American author, screenwriter, editor, and producer known for his work on a number of television crime shows, including Diagnosis: Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Martial Law, She-Wolf, 1-800-Missing, and Monk.

Personal life

Tod Goldberg, Linda Woods, and Karen Dinino are three of Goldberg's younger siblings, all of whom are writers. Burl Barer, a true crime author, is his uncle. Goldberg comes from a Jewish family.

He and his wife and daughter live in Calabasas.

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Career

Goldberg began his work as a journalist, reporting local news and the police beat for the Contra Costa Times (later renamed the East Bay Times) and UPI, as well as writing feature articles, interviews, and reviews for various national newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and American Film among others.

In addition to his previous journalism work, he worked at UCLA, where he served as a reporter and feature writer for the Daily Bruin student newspaper. Lewis Perse, the paper's journalism advisor from 1979 to 1982, who gave Goldberg his first writing assignment for Pinnacle Books, he befriended him. In 1985, the book,.357 Vigilante, was released under the name "Ian Ludlow." By New World Pictures, three more sequels and the series' movie rights were also available. Although the film was never produced, his script for the film, co-written with fellow UCLA classmate William Rabkin, led to a long career in television and film. They were the first television stars on "If You Knew Sammy" in Spenser's "For Hire" episode about an author of vigilante novels.

Murphy's Law, SeaQuest DSV, The Cosby Mysteries, and Monk are among his writing and production credits. He is perhaps best known for his time as a supervising producer and executive producer of the long-running series Diagnosis Murder, which stars Dick Van Dyke as a doctor who solves crimes.

Fast Track: No Limits was a German television show that premiered in 2007. In some countries, the program aired on television and in others, a theatrical film was released.

In 2010, he wrote and directed the short film Remaindered, based on his short story for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which was shot on location in Kentucky. In 2012, he wrote and directed Bumsicle, a sequel.

He co-wrote and co-created the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries telefilm series Mystery 101 starring Jill Wagner and Kristofer Polaha in 2019.

Constantin Films said in April 2021 that they would produce a film version of his book The Walk based on his screenplay version.

Fast Charlie, a film version by Victor Gischler, was released in March 2022 and starring Pierce Brosnan.

Goldberg wrote several original tie-in books based on those series, in conjunction with his Monk and Diagnosis Murder series. In addition to writing under the pseudonym Ian Ludlow, he has written two original crime novels, two of which featured ex-cop turned Hollywood tragedyshooter Charlie Willis and the aforementioned.357 Vigilante series, which he wrote under the pseudonym Ian Ludlow as a student.

The Man With the Iron-On Badge, a collection of his books, was nominated for a Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America and was published in Owensboro, Kentucky, at the International Mystery Writers Festival in 2007.

In addition, Goldberg has written non-fiction books about the entertainment industry, including Unsold Television Pilots and Profitable Television Writing. Unsold Television Pilots, Bill Rabkin and Goldberg's book, were turned into two television specials, The Greatest Shows You Never Saw on CBS and The Best TV Shows That Never Were on ABC, both written and produced by William Rabkin and Goldberg. They co-created The Dead Man, an original, monthly collection of horror stories that debuted in October 2011 as the first titles of Amazon's latest 47North sci-fi/fantasy imprint's new 47North sci-fi/horror/fantasy imprint's new flagship series. Amazon initially ordered 12 books and, in February 2012, the series was extended by 12 more. The Kindle Serial Reborn, the 24th title in the series, was published in January 2014 and is the final book in the series to date.

Random House announced his book The Heist, the first in a five-book series written with Janet Evanovich in June 2013. "Pros and Conscious": a prequel short story, was released in May 2013 and became the nation's top-selling Kindle Single for seven weeks in a row...and it made it to both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. The Heist debuted on the USA Today bestseller list and at number 5 on the New York Times bestseller list, and on the New York Times bestseller list. In March 2014, the Chase sequel debuted at #1 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list and at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. The Pursuit, the fifth book in the series, was published in June 2016 and debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in number five.

True Fiction, published by Amazon/Thomas & Mercer in April 2018, was his first book to be published. In February 2019, it was followed by Killer Thriller in February 2019 and Fake Truth in April 2020. All three books are "Ian Ludlow" thrillers, with the novelist hero sharing the same name as Goldberg's pseudonym when he first wrote his.357 Vigilante paperbacks in the 1980s.

Detective Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective on the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, was born in January 2020 and was followed by Bone Canyon (January 2021).

With novelist Joel Goldman, Goldberg launched Brash Books in September 2014. The company also publishes award-winning, highly acclaimed crime, thriller, and suspense books that have gone out of print.

Goldberg purchased the rights to the late author Ralph Dennis' published and unpublished books, which are a major influence on novelist Joe R. Lansdale and screenwriter Shane Black's work. In 2019, Brash Books published the Hardman series, with introductions by Joe R. Lansdale, Ben Jones, and Robert J. Randisi, among others, as well as Dennis' thriller The War Heist (Goldberg's edited down and updated version of Dennis' 1976 novel MacTaggart's War). "All Kinds of Ugly," a long-lost, last Hardman book that Goldberg discovered and redesigned in February 2020, was published by Brash Books in February 2020.

In December 2020, he introduced Cutting Edge Books, a vintage crime novels, thrillers, westerns, and literary fiction from the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, as well as writers Robert Dietrich (E. Howard Hunt), Stuart James, Bud Clifton, and Richard Himmel.

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