Richard Fliegel is the author of seven detective novels and has also written for television, including Star Trek: The Next Generation. He grew up in the Bronx by Allerton Avenue. For twenty years, he has lived among the postcards in Southern California, where he is the Assistant Dean of Academic Programs for USC College and teaches a freshman seminar on 'Writing to be Read.' He has also served as the unlikely President of Sha'area Am: The Santa Monica Synagogue.