William Monahan (born November 3 1960) is an American novelist and screenwriter. After attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Monahan, already a professional writer while an undergraduate, as well as a musician in Northampton, Massachusetts, moved to New York City to pursue a career as a journalist, writer and critic. He wrote several scabrous pieces for the "New York Press", … Wikipedia
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