Scott Spencer (writer)

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Scott Spencer (born September 1, 1945) is an American novelist and screenwriter from Washington, D.C. He has written fourteen novels and also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Father Hood. Two of his novels, Endless Love and Waking the Dead, were made into movies. Endless Love was first adapted in 1981 by Franco Zeffirelli, with a newer version released in 2014 by Shana Feste. Waking the Dead was produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Keith Gordon in 2000. Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper were National Book Award nominees, and Endless Love has sold over two million copies. Spencer has criticized the film adaptations of Endless Love.

He has worked as a journalist and written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Williams College, Bard College’s Bard Prison Initiative, and the University of Virginia. He studied at the University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. For around twenty years he has lived in upstate New York. He also writes horror novels under the pen name Chase Novak.