[citation needed] Soon after graduation, he moved to New York City, where he worked as an illustrator and researcher for Grolier's Encyclopedia.
[citation needed] He soon branched out as a freelance writer of nonfiction articles, the best known of which concerned the architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller.
The book was a series of stories based upon 6 months of the authors' ride-alongs with police from NYPD's 24th precinct.
His marriage to actress Lynn Pleshette produced one child, his daughter Albyn, but ended in divorce.
He died of complications from a series of infections at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on August 20, 2023.