Jeff Gross

Jeff Gross was born in Stamford, CT., to an educator mother and a journalist father. A multicultural and polyglot upbringing in Rio, New York, Paris, Colorado, and Los Angeles where his father was posted. After university at UC Santa Cruz and UCLA, he tried to play soccer professionally in Sweden and Germany before coming to his senses. He went on to live on a tiny island in Greece called Astypalea, before moving to Paris in 1982. Where he lives to this day. A novelist in the spirit of Henry Miller and John Barth, he is also a filmmaker who collaborated on several screenplays with Roman Polanski, including "Frantic" and the cult favorite, "Bitter Moon," and is in the process of setting up production on the adaptation of "World of Midgets" as well another novel, "Island Time," about Astypalea.