Rick Marin(I)

Rick Marin was born in Toronto, majored in English at McGill, then got two Masters -- in English at the University of Toronto and Journalism at Columbia. His career in newspapers and magazines culminated at Newsweek as a Senior Writer and a reporter/columnist at The New York Times. He left the Times to write a bestselling memoir, "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor" -- a male response to Bridget Jones and "Sex and the City" about his misspent single years in New York in the '90s (pre-cell phones and Tinder). When Miramax optioned the book, he wrote the adaptation and pivoted from journalism and books to film and TV, moving to Los Angeles with his wife, Ilene Rosenzweig, and two boys, Diego and Kingsley (named after his father and favorite writer). He's also the author of a bestselling Kindle Single, "Keep Swinging." about being the world's least likely sports dad, and contributes essays and articles to the tennis quarterly, "Racquet." He's on the Latinx Writers Committee at the Writers Guild and his passion project is a feature about his father, who acted in Federico Garcia Lorca's traveling theater company La Barraca, and fought in the Spanish Civil War.