Richard Kramer is the Emmy and multiple Peabody award winning writer, director and producer of several top TV series, including Thirtysomething, My So-called Life, Tales of the City, and Once and Again. His first short story, Late Bloomers, was published in the New Yorker when he was still a senior at Yale. His debut novel, These Things Happen received praise in Publishers Weekly, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon for portraying the challenges of the modern family with depth, humor, and compassion. For more info, visit: www.richardkramer.com.