Neal Rubin was born in 1955 in Southern California. He is a columnist for The Detroit News and currently writes the nationally syndicated comic strip Gil Thorp. He previously worked for the Detroit Free Press, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun and Greeley Tribune.
He was three times voted Nevada Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Assn.
Rubin appears as himself in a recent Elmore Leonard novel, "Up in Honey's Room."
He lives with his wife and two sons in Farmington Hills, Michigan.