births 1973 deaths American television producers American television writers American male screenwriters People from Beatrice, Nebraska Writers from Nebraska Glendale High School (Glendale, California) alumni Glendale Community College (California) alumni University of Iowa alumni United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II United States Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War Deaths from lung cancer in California Showrunners American male television writers 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters United States Marine Corps reservists 20th-century pseudonymous writers