Television and film writer and producer

John Romano has been writer and producer on more than a dozen television programs including Hill Street Blues, Party of Five, and Monk as well as creator of Class of '96, Sweet Justice, and Michael Hayes. His screenwriting credits include The Third Miracle, the Coen Bros.'s Intolerable Cruelty, and the forthcoming Nights in Rodanthe.

Romano previously taught English literature at Columbia University and wrote a critical study of the novelist Charles Dickens, Dickens and Reality (1978, Columbia University Press). He earned his Ph.D. from Yale.