Jeff Gottesfeld

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Jeff Gottesfeld is an American essayist, novelist, and screen and television writer.

He grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, attended Teaneck High School, Colby College, and then the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was president of his class and a member of the law review. But he only practiced law for less than a year before turning to publishing and writing as a career.

Gottesfeld has written freelance for numerous magazines and newspapers, and continues to publish essays on such subjects as the ongoing controversy over the Confederate flag, immigration policy, and trends in young adult fiction. Among his favorite authors are Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Wouk, and George Orwell.

He is a former member of the executive board of the United Jewish Federation of Utah. He and his family lived in Utah for several years.

He is the eldest of four children; father is a stockbroker and his mother a psychotherapist. He has been married to Cherie Bennett since 1990. They live in Los Angeles with their son.

[edit] Television Series & Film

  • The Young And The Restless
  • Script Writer: December 14, 2006- 12/21/07; 3/18/08- present
  • Associate Head Writer: July 2007-present)

Y&R Main Crew

Head Writer Fired Associate/Breakdown/Script Producers/Consultants Directors
Josh Griffith; Maria Arena Bell Lynn Marie Latham, Lynsey DuFour, Marina Alburger, Bernard Lechowick Scott Hamner, Cherie Bennett, Darin Goldberg [1], Marla Kanelos, Neil Landau, Christian McLaughlin, Sandra Weintraub, Linda Schreiber, Tammy Ader, Shelley Meals, Diane Messina Stanley, Barbara Bloom, Michael Montgomery, Natalie Minardi Slater, Eric Freiwald, Beth Milstein, Kathryn Pratt [2], Jeff Gottesfeld, Valerie Ahern, Linda Gase [3], James Stanley, Robin Burger [4], Corey Marsh J. Griffith (EP), John Fisher, Anthony Morina, Josh O'Connell, Matthew J. Olson, Steve Kent, Bill Bell Jr. Susan Strickler, Phideaux Xavier, S. McDonald, Andrew Lee, Jill Ackles, Marc Berutti, Dean LaMont, David Shaughnessy, John Zak

[edit] Books

Book Series

  • Dawson's Creek (seven original novels)
  • Mirror Image (four book series)

Six Book Series

  • University Hospital
  • Teen Angels
  • Trash

Other Books

  • A Heart Divided
  • Anne Frank And Me
  • Turn Me On (writing as Cherie Jeffrey, with Cherie Bennett)


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