Author Richard Dooling’s first novel, Critical Care, was made into a film directed by the great Sidney Lumet, starring James Spader and Helen Mirren. His second novel, White Man’s Grave, was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award. His third novel, Brain Storm, and his fourth novel, Bet Your Life, were both New York Times Notable Books Of The Year.

Richard Dooling is also the author of Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment, a collection of essays on the first amendment and the politics of swearing, and Rapture For The Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ about the future of technology.

Dooling’s Diary Of An Immortal Man, which appeared in Esquire Magazine, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The L.A. Times, and The National Review. Over the years, he contributed many op-ed pieces to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Law Journal.

In 2003-2004, Richard Dooling co-wrote and helped produce Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital for ABC. Under the pen name Eleanor Druse, a mystic and savant in residence at Kingdom Hospital, Richard Dooling also wrote The Journals of Eleanor Druse, a New York Times bestseller.