Howard BurmanHoward Burman was born in Brooklyn. Occasionally in the summer his father would take him to Ebbets Field to see the Dodgers. His love of baseball, reflected in some of the books and plays he has written, began there. Burman attended Wilmington Colleg in Ohio and later transferred to The Ohio State University, where he received his B.A. and remained to earn his Ph.D. He later helped form Cameo Entertainments, and toured productions with television and film stars such as Valerie Harper, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee Meredith, Michael Learned, and Roy Dotrice. He also produced an off-Broadway show in New York, Behind the Broken Words. Burman moved on to become Artistic Producing Director of the Hilberry Theatre in Detroit and the Chair of the Theatre Department at Wayne State University, where he produced some 35 shows, including two that were nominated for a national critics award.

He returned to California to start the California Repertory Company, and chaired the department of Theatre Arts at California State University, Long Beach. There he produced more than 150 shows, including 23 which he wrote. Among the most successful were Article 24, The Boys of Summer, The Puccini Project, The Third Lie, The Miracle of Piaf, On the Beach, and Willie, Mickey & The Duke. He is the author of The Iliad Was Either Homer or Somebody Else of the Same Name, a novel--A Story Told by Two Liars, and several baseball books, including A Man Called Shoeless, which relates the life story of the enigmatic Joe Jackson.

Burman has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia and has been a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. He lived part-time in Switzerland and then for a few years in Ireland. He and his wife, Karen, currently reside in Felton, California--a small town in the mountains of Santa Cruz County south of San Francisco. Their son, Ty, daughter, Kerry, and granddaughters, Gabrielle and Lucy, live nearby. Read More Read Less