Jerry Joseph Sterner (15 September 1938 – 11 June 2001) was an American businessman and playwright,[1] best known for the play, Other People's Money: The Ultimate Seduction, later, adapted as the 1991 romantic-comedy-drama film.
[2] Sterner sold tokens for the New York City Transit Authority,[2] on the night shift, where, in nearly six years, he wrote seven plays in the booth.
[2] In 1984, at the age of 46, he left a real estate business, as president of David C. Gold & Company,[2] to become a writer full-time.
A play for 3 males and 2 females,[5] It starred Kevin Conway, Mercedes Ruehl, James Murtaugh, Arch Johnson, and Scotty Bloch.
[2] He is buried behind his old building in Brooklyn, in Washington Cemetery with a headstone sardonically inscribed: "Finally, a plot.