Pincus Jacob Wolfson was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants[1] in New York City.

[citation needed] Pincus studied pharmacy at Fordham University.

[citation needed] While working in a pharmacy in Madison Square Garden, he wrote his first novels.

[2] Allen Rivkin, an advertising copy writer, who went to Hollywood and joined the RKO Pictures publicity department, formed a film writing team with Wolfson, who got a writer’s contract on the strength of "Bodies Are Dust".

He produced 30 episodes of the television series I Married Joan between 1952 and 1955.