Trivia

He met his wife at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

He graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Dramatic Arts.

His son is journalist and novelist Karl Taro.

He met Paul Mazursky in 1953 at summer theatre in Falmouth, Mass. Almost twenty years later he profiled the writer-director for an article in Look Magazine.

He graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Dramatic Arts in 1953.

While attending MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH in 1960, he married Japanese writer and artist Fumiko Kometani.

In 1976 he adapted Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches into the Broadway play "I Have a Dream,' starring Billy Dee Williams as MLK. His other plays included "Clandestine On The Morning Line,' 'The Last Two Jews Of Kabul," and "Canal Street." His novels included "O For A Master Of Magic," and "The Return Of Mr. Hollywood," which was a nod to Paul Mazursky. He also wrote for major publications, including his New York Times review praising Philip Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint - "I know not since Catcher in the Rye have I read an American novel with such pleasure.".

Wrote a trilogy of books detailing the heartbreaking struggle of raising and caring for an autistic child. The first publication in 1972, A Child Called Noah, was written in journal form and is considered a landmark book in the field of autism, receiving universal praise for its honesty. His subsequent publications were A Place for Noah (1978), and A Client Called Noah (1986).