Howard Korder Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination for "Boy's Life․"
• Won an AFI Award in 2011 for "Boardwalk Empire," along with Martin Scorsese, Timothy Van Patten and Terence Winter
• Won a Writers Guild of America Award for New Series in 2011, along with others involved in "Boardwalk Empire․"
• Started writing plays because he realized he would never be a rock musician, as he never knew how to play an instrument, but he wanted to channel that sort of energy and excitement to an audience
• Quote: "I'm wary to make any thematic statement about my own work․ But I guess I'm interested in the gap between what we want and what we wind up getting․"
• Quote: "Writers could trap me in my chair, and I wanted to do that․ I wanted to make others feel, as my favorite writers made me feel, to show something about how life exists․"
• In addition to his screenplays for film and television, he wrote the play "Search and Destroy" which was adapted into a film in 1995
• Authored the 1988 coming-of-age play "Boy's Life․"
• Chekhov is his favorite playwright because of the way he blends the comic with the unbearably sad
• Draws influence from such playwrights as John Webster, Harold Pinter and David Mamet