Steve Sohmer, born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1941, is a Shakespearean scholar, an author of fiction and nonfiction books, a television writer and producer, and the former CEO and president of Columbia Pictures. He published his first novel The Way It Wasin 1966 and later earned his PhD in Shakespearean studies from Oxford University in 1995. His novel Favorite Sonwas made into a miniseries aired by NBC in 1988. Sohmer currently teaches at UCLA.