Biografía

Having been raised in NYC's Spanish Harlem in the 1980s, Olds was mugged more than ten times. He decided to learn karate. He trained for a decade, amassing more than 15 wins in international competitions.

Olds has been writing since he was a kid. William Morris signed him at age 17 because of his first passion-project, a screenplay called "The Blood of The Land" (about New World settlers). Since then, he's written and sold TV pilots, screenplays, and worked as a freelance journalist for Salon.com, NPR and Conde Naste, among others.

Wrote an article about September 11th for Salon.com.

He graduated from Yale University in 1995.

Son of poet Sharon Olds.