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Jeff Andrus was born and raised in California’s Salinas Valley. He was selected as an AFS high school exchange student to South Africa and spent a second year in South Africa attending the University of Natal, Durban. He earned a BA in English from Stanford University where he studied Creative Writing under the tutelage of Wallace Stegner and Nancy Packer. He did post-graduated work at UCLA's film school, and in 1971, his comedic screenplay Doc placed first in the Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Competition.

Jeff has compiled an eclectic resume, including four years as a radio announcer, two years developing documentaries for Wolper Productions and two terms teaching at UCLA Extension. For more than 30 years he has been a freelance writer and editor. He scripted nine movies for television, including Proud Men starring Charlton Heston and Peter Strauss, HBO's As Summers Die and Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story. He was a writer on the award-winning animation series, The Kids' Ten Commandments, and wrote the theatrical film adaptation of The Jeweler's Shop from a play by the late Pope John-Paul II. Jeff has consulted on numerous projects to bring stories from conception to the screen. He has edited and ghostwritten a variety of articles and books, fiction and non-fiction, and has authored two crime novels published by Scribner. (Credits.)

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