- He met his wife at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
- He graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Dramatic Arts.
- His son is journalist and novelist Karl Taro.
- He met Paul Mazursky in 1953 at summer theatre in Falmouth, Mass. Almost twenty years later he profiled the writer-director for an article in Look Magazine.
- He graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Dramatic Arts in 1953.
- While attending MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH in 1960, he married Japanese writer and artist Fumiko Kometani.
- In 1976 he adapted Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches into the Broadway play "I Have a Dream,' starring Billy Dee Williams as MLK. His other plays included "Clandestine On The Morning Line,' 'The Last Two Jews Of Kabul," and "Canal Street." His novels included "O For A Master Of Magic," and "The Return Of Mr. Hollywood," which was a nod to Paul Mazursky. He also wrote for major publications, including his New York Times review praising Philip Roth's 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint - "I know not since Catcher in the Rye have I read an American novel with such pleasure.".
- Wrote a trilogy of books detailing the heartbreaking struggle of raising and caring for an autistic child. The first publication in 1972, A Child Called Noah, was written in journal form and is considered a landmark book in the field of autism, receiving universal praise for its honesty. His subsequent publications were A Place for Noah (1978), and A Client Called Noah (1986).
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