La Literati Welcomes Author David Kukoff

A graduate of Columbia University and UCLA Film School, David Kukoff has eleven produced film and television credits to his name, including the hit Disney movies “Model Behavior” with Justin Timberlake and Kathie Lee Gifford, and “Switching Goals” with the Olsen Twins.  In addition to making the front page of Variety for selling a spec screenplay for $400,000 against $700,000, he has written for every studio and network in Hollywood, has published two books on film and television writing, and has been the subject of numerous features in Variety, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, and KCET’s award-winning “Life And Times Tonight”.

Mr. Kukoff has taught writing at Northwestern (where he was elected to the university’s Faculty Honor Roll in his first year), UCLA, and NYU, has served as a guest editor to UK academic publisher Palgrave MacMillan, and has been a featured as a guest lecturer at UCLA’s Faculty Lecture Series at Lake Arrowhead. "Children Of The Canyon" is his first novel.