David Freeman is a screenwriter and the author of six books, including the story collection A Hollywood Education; The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock, a memoir about his experience writing a script with the great director; One of Us, a novel of Egypt and England, and most recently ‘It's All True’. His play Jesse and the Bandit Queen ran for 200 performances at the Public Theater in New York, won several prizes, and has played around the world. His journalism, reviews, and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.