Adler, Warren

Warren Adler (born December 16, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York) is a world renowned American novelist and playwright with books translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Adler graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University, where he majored in English literature. His classmates included Mario Puzo and William Styron.

He published his first novel in 1974. Since then, he has written another twenty-four novels including The War of The Roses and Random Hearts both of which were adapted into motion pictures and went on to become worldwide hits.

The War of The Roses, directed by Danny DeVito, starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Random Hearts starred Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Warren Adler has also written five short story collections. The stories from his acclaimed collection, The Sunset Gang, became an American Playhouse three-hour television production in 1991 and in 2002, a pilot was produced based on The Fiona FitzGerald Mysteries. He has sold or optioned twelve books for film including Private Lies which fetched more than 1.2 million dollars, one of the highest prices ever for a novel. The picture was never made.

Warren Adler is noted for his efforts to encourage new authors. He is the founder of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and his website is lauded for its information for aspiring authors.

Warren is a pioneer in electronic publishing and has acquired his complete backlist and converted this entire library to digital publishing formats.

Warren also has a blog which he updates frequently and blogs about items from politics to literature to pop culture and the movies.

In 2006, Warren began The Warren Adler Short Story Contest which is fast becoming the most prestigious online short story contest thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of the submissions. A new contest has begun and submissions will be accepted from April 13, 2009-July 13, 2009.

Warren can be found on the numerous social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter (warrenadler), Gather, Eons, and MySpace. Warren enjoys interacting with his fans worldwide and the many budding writers out there.