[1] Wanting to become an actor, he adopted a new name and relocated to Chicago and then New York, but found his metier as a writer.
He wrote for magazines such as Playboy and the Ladies Home Journal and joined the Barr-Wilder-Albee Playwrights Unit, a theater workshop.
[1] For The Last of Mrs Lincoln, he won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright in 1973.
He became friends with Katharine Hepburn, who acted in many of his films, such as Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986), Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988), The Man Upstairs (1992).
[5] He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie for producing Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry.