His TV movie Legacy of Lies, a drama about three generations of Jewish gangsters and cops in Chicago, which starred Eli Wallach, won the Writers Foundation of America Gold Medal for Excellence in Writing. It also received an ACE Award for Martin Landau for Best Actor.

His feature The Confession, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, and Amy Irving, was praised in New York by John Leonard and in The Hollywood Reporter, among other places, and was described in Metroland as "an almost miraculous act of storytelling."

He has published nine books and more than 150 articles in magazines, including The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and Rolling Stone. His novel An Impossible Life has been praised by, among others, Nobel Prizewinning author Czeslaw Milosz, Erica Jong, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Leslie Epstein, who called it the best writing about Jewish gangsters since Isaac Babel. Contemporary Authors describes Black as "a versatile, multimedia writer who has distinguished himself in both fiction and nonfiction."

He has taught writing at Mt. Holyoke, NYU, Columbia, Yale, where he is a Fellow at Pierson College, and Harvard, where he is a scholar-in-residence at Kirkland House. He is a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America and a member of the Century Association, the Williams Club, the Columbia University Club, PEN, the Writers Guild, the Explorers Club, the Players, and the National Arts Club. You can sign up for email updates here.

NOVELS.

The Extinction Event.

An Impossible Life.

Peep Show.

Minds.

Like Father.

NONFICTION.

Medicine Man.

Murder at the Met The King of Fifth Avenue Ekstasy PLAYS..

An Impossible Life POETRY.

Mirrors FILMS..

The Confession Legacy of Lies TV.

Cop Shop CSI: Miami.

The Bedford Diaries The Education of Max Bickford Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street The Cosby Mysteries.

EZ Streets Law & Order The Nasty Boys.

H.E.L.P.

Gideon Oliver Miami Vice.

Hill Street Blues.

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