Jeff Gottesfeld

Howard Jeffrey Gottesfeld[3][4] (born 1956) is an American novelist, playwright, and screen and television writer. In recent years he has focused on writing texts for picture books for children, grades two and up.

Jeff Gottesfeld
Born
Howard Jeffrey Gottesfeld

1956 (age 66–67)[1]
EducationColby College (BA)[2]
University of San Francisco (JD)[2]
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • playwright
  • writer

Biography

Gottesfeld grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, attended Teaneck High School,[5] Colby College, and then the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Gottesfeld has written freelance for numerous magazines and newspapers, and continues to publish essays on such subjects as the ongoing controversy over the Confederate flag, immigration policy, and trends in young adult fiction.

His fiction ranges from elementary age children to adult. For television, he has written for such shows as Smallville and The Young and the Restless. Together with Cherie Bennett, he has written under the pen name Zoey Dean.[6] His first picture book was The Tree in the Courtyard, published by Random House/Knopf in March, 2016. It received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal. His 2020 children's book, No Steps Behind, documents the life and activism of Beate Sirota Gordon.[7] It is the winner of the 2020 NCTA Freeman Award, for the best children's book about Asia.[8] It was also a runner-up finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award.[9] His March, 2021 picture book, with illustrations by Matt Tavares, is Twenty-One Steps, published by Candlewick Press. It received a number of starred reviews, as well as praise from the Wall Street Journal.[10][11][12] It is about the origins of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and its Tomb Guards.[13]

Television credits

The Young and the Restless (hired by Lynn Marie Latham)

  • Script Writer: December 14, 2006 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - August 19, 2008
  • Associate Head Writer: July 2007 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - July 10, 2008

As the World Turns

  • Breakdown Writer: 2005

Port Charles

Another World

  • Story Consultant: 1997

Girls Got Game: 2006

Smallville: 2001 - 2002

Films

Books

Book Series

  • Dawson's Creek (seven original novels)
  • Mirror Image (four book series)
  • Robinson's Hood (three book series)
  • Campus Confessions (four book series)

Six Book Series

  • University Hospital
  • Teen Angels
  • Trash
  • 'Amen, L.A.'
  • 'SuperFan!'
  • 'SuperFan #2: Tag-Teamed!"

Other Books

  • A Heart Divided
  • Anne Frank And Me
  • Turn Me On (writing as Cherie Jeffrey, with Cherie Bennett)
  • The Tree in the Courtyard (illustrated by Peter McCarty)
  • No Steps Behind (Creston, 2020), (illustrated by Shiella Witanto)
  • Twenty-One Steps (Candlewick, 2021) (illustrated by Matt Tavares)

Plays
  • 'A Heart Divided'
  • 'Anne Frank and Me" (with Cherie Bennett)
  • '10 x 10' (ten short plays about values, editor)
  • 'Does My Head Look Big in This?' (with Elizabeth Wong)
  • "The World's Strongest Librarian" (with Elizabeth Wong)

References
  1. United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (New York, California, Tennessee, 1991-2008)
  2. LinkedIn Profile
  3. Colby College (Class of 1977) Yearbook
  4. https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/howard-jeffrey-gottesfeld-1185172
  5. About Jeff, Jeff Gottesfeld. Accessed February 12, 2020. "I grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, where I went to Whittier School, Benjamin Franklin Junior High School, and Teaneck High School."
  6. Biography: Zoey Dean. Scholastic Corporation (accessed September 20, 2015)
  7. "Children's Book Review: No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon's Battle for Women's Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld, illus. by Shiella Witanto. Creston, $18.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-939547-55-2". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  8. "Freeman Book Awards". 9 November 2016.
  9. "2020 National Jewish Book Award Winners". 5 February 2021.
  10. "TWENTY-ONE STEPS | Kirkus Reviews".
  11. "The Horn Book".
  12. Gurdon, Meghan Cox (26 February 2021). "Children's Books: 'Too Small Tola' Review - WSJ". Wall Street Journal.
  13. "Candlewick Press - Catalog".
  14. Leydon, Joe (September 21, 2006). "Broken Bridges". Variety. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
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