Randall Sullivan is an American author and journalist who has also worked as a screenwriter, film and television producer and on-camera television personality. Life Early life and education Sullivan was born in Los Angeles and grew up in North Bend, Oregon. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where he attended Sunset High School. "In high school, I was a football jock who was always in trouble." After high school, he enrolled at the University of Oregon and went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree in English (with honors) in 1974. In 1976 he accepted a two-year writing fellowship at Columbia University; he left with a master's degree a few years later. While he was at Columbia he took courses at the Columbia School of Journalism. After graduating from Columbia University, he took his first journalist position at the New York Daily News "for ten months." He later moved to Los Angeles to further his journalism career at the Herald Examiner and Rolling Stone. Writing career Randall Sullivan has “been making a living by writing since 1979." Sullivan has written for a number of nationally recognized publications, including Esquire; The Washington Post; The Guardian; Rolling Stone; and Wired. He "has written three books nominated for the Pulitzer Prize... [and] won a number of national awards." The Billionaire Boys Club and The Price of Experience In 1986, Sullivan wrote an article for Esquire detailing the corruption and criminal activities of the Billionaire Boys Club; the article “exposed the whole fascinating mess and briefly made Sullivan the brightest light in town [Los Angeles].” Sullivan was paid $250,000 to write a book based on the article; and, according to Jeff Baker of The Oregonian, this was “at that time... the highest advance ever paid to a first-time author.” The rights to the Esquire article were also used as a basis for the NBC television mini-series, Billionaire Boys Club. Although, the mini-series was nominated for two Golden Globe awards and four Emmys, it was considered "factually inaccurate" and did not stay true to the source material. In 1996 Sullivan published The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles, his long-awaited book about the Billionaire Boys Club. He spent ten years researching and writing the book; a book that Dick Adler of the Los Angeles Times described as “monumental." Sullivan's research included “hundreds of sources… eight