William Monahan

AKA:
William J Monahan
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
11/03/1960
Birthplace:
Boston, Massachusetts
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biography
Reclusive novelist-turned-screenwriter William Monahan cut his teeth for years as a journalist for such well-known publications as Talk, Maxim and The New York Press before becoming the toast of Hollywood in the mid-2000’s. The scribe of such big-budget features as Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven” (2005) and the 2006 Martin Scorsese thriller, “The Departed,” Monahan began writing for Hollywood in 2001 and quickly rose to become one of Tinseltown’s most sought-after talents.

Born in Boston, MA on Nov. 30, 1960, William Monahan fashioned himself a career as a modern day “man of letters”—that Continued

Credits
Screenplay
2008
Screenplay
2006
screenplay
2005
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Played guitar in a band called the Slags in the late 1980s
1991 
Earliest known published piece, a short story titled "At the Village Hall" in the Northampton zine Perkins Press
1993 
Began contributing essays and short fiction to the alternative weekly New York Press; regularly courting controversy
1993 
First novel Light House was published serially in the Amherst literary magazine Old Crow Review over five installments
1995 
Wrote a weekly column for the seasonal Hamptons magazine
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