Hank Steinberg Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Original Long Form for "61*" in 2002
• Studied English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a sportswriter for the Daily Pennsylvanian
• Started out as the first assistant director on the 1995 film "Heroic Symphony․"
• Quote: "(On "Without a Trace"): "We're interested in the emotional truth of the story․ That's the important part․ I don't think of us as being an FBI show․ To me, the fact that our guys are in the FBI is incidental․""
• Quote: "There's a line from the pilot [of 'Without a Trace']․․․If you find out who they are, you'll find out where they are․․․the reason they're missing tie[s] back to some secret, some psychological complexity they have going on in their lives․"
• Wrote the screenplays for "61*" and "RFK" in 2001 and 2002
• Best known as the creator and executive producer of "Without a Trace" and "The Nine․"
• Is the author of the novel "Out of Range," which was published in 2013