Dan Gordon is an Israeli-American screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and reserve duty captain in the Israel Defense Forces.As a screenwriter, he has written films including Wyatt Earp, Passenger 57, Murder in the First, and The Hurricane, and television series such as Highway to Heaven, Highlander, and Soldier of Fortune, Inc. He has also written stage adaptations of Terms of Endearment and Rain Man, and novels based on his screenplays as well as his own experiences fighting in the Gaza War. Dan Gordon was born, May 5, 1947, in Southern California. He grew up in Bell Gardens, CA, and at 16 went to Israel where he attended high school at the Ginegar kibbutz. After High School he returned to Southern California, and studied at East LA Junior College for a year, before transferring to UCLA as a film and television major.Gordon married his wife Jo-Ann while he was in Israel. They have three sons Zaki, Yoni and Adam. Zaki, his eldest, died in a traffic accident in 1998 at the age of 22. Gordon is Jewish, and has acted as a keynote speaker at Jewish and Christian religious conferences.

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