David Rosenfelt
Author of Open and Shut
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Works by David Rosenfelt
Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure (2013) 236 copies
Associated Works
Vertel het aan niemand; Kijk naar jezelf!; Grensgebied; Het eiland — Author — 2 copies
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- Birthdate
- 20th century
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Paterson, New Jersey, USA
- Education
- New York University, New York, USA
- Occupations
- novelist
film writer
dog rescue - Organizations
- Tara Foundation
- Awards and honors
- Edgar Award for Best First Novel
- Agent
- Robin Rue
Sandy Weinberg (film) - Short biography
- David Rosenfelt is an author who has written nineteen novels and three TV movies. His main character in most of his mystery books is Andy Carpenter, attorney and dog lover.
Rosenfelt graduated from New York University and then decided to work in the movie business. After being interviewed by his uncle, who was the President of United Artists, he was hired and worked his way up the corporate culture. Rosenfelt eventually became the marketing president for Tri-Star Pictures. He married and had two children during this period.
Rosenfelt left the corporate industry and wrote screenplays for movies and television. He turned to writing novels and has become quite successful in that genre. In 1995, he and his wife started the "Tara Foundation" which has saved almost 4,000 dogs. He is a dog lover and supports more than two dozen dogs.
Rosenfelt, a dog lover and who worked with many lawyers in his occupation, created a character, Andy Carpenter, an attorney who faces corporate cultures and who is a dog lover.
Rosenfelt books run in the low to mid 300 pages with 15 basic beats and about 40 scenes fairly consistent with movie and television formats.
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