Robert Nelson Jacobs

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ROBERT NELSON JACOBS grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction, and he later earned a master’s degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. While at Iowa, he published short stories in several literary magazines. His love of movies brought him to California, where it took a number of years for his writing to finally start paying the rent. Jacobs’ script for Chocolat (2000 film) was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. His other produced screenplays include The Shipping News, Dinosaur, and Out to Sea. Jacobs’ screenplay for The Water Horse, a fantasy for young audiences, has completed filming in Scotland and New Zealand. The Water Horse will arrive in theaters on Christmas, 2007. Jacobs is a charter member of the Writers Co-op, a new company based at Warner Brothers that allows its member writers to produce and retain creative control over their own screenplays. He is currently writing an original screenplay for the Co-op.