is the author of several novels, including Perfect People, Baby and Ten Days to Murmansk. He is also a physicist and professor of mathematics at Cornell University and an independent film maker. His films include Green Lights, Faces in a Famine and BoyceBall. The Last Boy has been optioned by Michael Gruskof of Industry Entertainment, producer of Quest for Fire and My Favorite Year. Lieberman lives in Ithaca, New York.