John Romano

John Romano's movie credits include his adaptation of Michael Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer for Lakeshore. In addition, he has written The Third Miracle for producer Francis Ford Coppola, Nights in Rodanthe from the novel by Nicholas Sparks, and the Coen Brothers' Intolerable Cruelty, starring George Clooney. In TV, he's been a writer-producer for more than a dozen shows, starting with "Hill Street Blues" which earned him an Emmy® nomination for the final episode. Other shows include "L.A. Law," "Party of Five," "Third Watch," and "Monk." In addition, he created three shows of his own—"Class of '96", "Sweet Justice", and (with Nick Pileggi) "Michael Hayes"—and is known for having rewritten the pilot for Fox's long-running "24."

Romano, who earned a Ph.D. from Yale, came to Hollywood from New York, where he taught English Literature at Columbia, was a book reviewer for the New York Times, and wrote a book on Charles Dickens (Dickens and Reality.) He's a member of USC's Institute for the Humanities, contributes to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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