His father was an engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory and his mother taught English in the Patchogue-Medford School District.
His most recent book is The Ball in the Air (2023), about the lives of three amateur golfers, Pratima Sherpa, Ryan French and Sam Reeves.
[2] In 2004, Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins signed with Walt Disney Studios,[3] leaving the status of the project uncertain.
The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale (2006), released the same week as the writer-director-producer's film Lady in the Water, profiles him as he develops it.
[4] The Swinger (2011), a novel he wrote with fellow Sports Illustrated writer Alan Shipnuck, is a satire of the Tiger Woods sex scandal.