Cheek, Ozzie

After writing a cowboy story in the fifth grade, Ozzie Cheek knew he would be a writer. But his life first took many detours. Among other things, he studied for the Methodist clergy, taught school, lived in a commune, owned businesses, and traveled the world.

His first publications were stories in literary magazines. His first writing income came from selling erotic letters to a men's magazine under a female pen name.

In 1995 Ozzie moved to Los Angeles and went on to write screenplays or TV series episodes for HBO, Showtime, NBC, CBS, and Fox. He wrote and produced the TV movie "Kiss Tom...