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Paul Rudnick is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been produced on and off Broadway and around the world, and include Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, I Hate Hamlet, Valhalla, Regrets Only and The New Century. He’s won an Obie award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a GLAAD Award and the John Gassner Playwrighting Award. His novels include I’ll Take It, Social Disease, Playing the Palace and Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style. HarperCollins has published his Collected Plays and a group of essays titled I Shudder. Mr. Rudnick is rumored to be quite close to Libby Gelman-Waxner, a film critic for both Premiere and Entertainment Weekly, whose collected columns have been published under the title If You Ask Me. Mr. Rudnick’s articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and he’s a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. His screenplays include ADDAMS FAMILY VALUE, IN & OUT, the screen adaptation of JEFFREY, SISTER ACT and COASTAL ELITES for HBO. Simon&Schuster will publish his new novel, titled What Is Wrong With You? in March of 2025. Photo credit: Emilio Madrid.

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