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Jeff Vintar was born in Oak Park, Illinois. After short careers as a cabinet-maker, an industrial laborer, a college English instructor, a cartoonist, and a bus driver, he broke into the film business by selling three spec scripts within six months: "The Long Hello and Short Good-bye," released in Germany by Warner Bros. in 1999; "Spaceless," recently moved to Universal Pictures with Gore Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean") attached to direct; and "Hardwired," which made it to the screen in 2004 as the 20th Century Fox film "I, Robot" starring Will Smith. Mr. Vintar has written screenplays for Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and New Line Cinema. His latest project is "Station," a classical murder mystery set on board the International Space Station for CBS Films. He lives in southern California with his wife and daughter.

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A graduate of the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop