He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, then received his MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, where he wrote for the Daily Bruin student newspaper.
[1][2] He has written for a number of notable television series namely Spenser: For Hire, Murphy's Law, Hunter, Baywatch, Diagnosis Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, Monk and many other series.
They first teamed up as writers on the unmade, feature film adaptation of Goldberg's novel .357 Vigilante, beginning a professional partnership that lasted for twenty years.
He teaches screenwriting as part of the faculty at UC Riverside's Low-Residency Graduate Creative Writing Program in Palm Desert, California.
[6] and is assistant director of the MFA program at Long Island University[7] His father was Norman Rabkin (1930-2012),[8] the Shakespearean scholar best known for his work Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning.