Erik Tarloff
Erik Tarloff has been writing professionally since his college years.
Much of his early work was written for the screen, both large and small. His list of credits includes almost one hundred situation comedy scripts, including multiple episodes of M*A*S*H, All in the Family, the Bob Newhart Show, the Jeffersons, Alice, Room 222, Housecalls, My World and Welcome To It, and many others. For his television writing, he has been nominated for an Emmy Award, a Writers Guild Award, and an NAACP Image Award.
He has also been involved in the development of some fifteen or twenty long-form theatrical motion picture scripts for the major studios in Hollywood. These include an early draft of the animated feature Aladdin for Disney Studios, Cheetah for the same studio, and Car 54, Where Are You? for Orion Pictures.
He is the author of three plays: Something to Hide, Another Week-End in the Country, and Cedars. Cedars was featured at the 2014 Berkshire Theater Festival, starring the distinguished actor James Naughton. Another Week-End in the Country was produced at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Something to Hide at the Richmond Shepherd Theater in Los Angeles, where it won the Dramalog Award for Playwriting and First Honorable Mention at the Beverly Hills Theater Guild Awards.
He has had fiction published in The Paris Review, Penthouse, the online magazine Slate (a serialized novel written in collaboration with Francine Prose and Jefferson Morley), and anthologized in the volume Last Night's Stranger.
He has contributed reviews and articles to Earth, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Book Review, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Working Woman, Washingtonian Magazine, San Francisco Focus, Vogue, Salon, The American Prospect, and The Financial Times, among others. He has been a frequent contributor to the British magazine Prospect, where he was a contributing editor. He has also published music criticism (both popular and classical), literary criticism, a diary from the 1996 Democratic Convention, and an assortment of other features in Slate, where he was a regular book critic for several years.
He has lent a pro bono speechwriting hand to the addresses of former President Bill Clinton, former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.
He is the author of the novels Face-Time, The Man Who Wrote the Book, All Our Yesterdays, The Woman in Black, and Tell Me the Truth About Love. Face-Time was a national bestseller, The Man Who Wrote the Book was on the recommended summer reading lists of the New York Times Book Review, Long Island Newsday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salon.com, and National Public Radio, and was named as one of the memorable books of the year by the New York Times. The Woman in Black was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, economist Laura Tyson.
