Bruce Zimmerman
Bruce Zimmerman (born 11 June 1952) in California, is a U.S. novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. Among the television series which Zimmerman has worked on are Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY, K-Ville, The District, Judging Amy, Reunion, So Weird, and Street Time. He has also written a number of movies for television, including the two "Inspectors" movies for Showtime.
As a novelist, he has written four suspense novels starring Quinn Parker - Blood Under the Bridge (1989), Thicker Than Water (1991), Full-Bodied Red (1993) and Crimson Green (1994). Zimmerman's writing career began while living in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, a small colonial town in the mountains of Central Mexico.
In 2011, he joined the writing staff of Criminal Minds, for which he wrote eleven episodes so far, and now hold the rank of a co-executive producer.