Larry Brooks

Larry Brooks graduated from Portland State University in 1975 with a degree in marketing communications. Building quite a resume of career moves that didn't quite pan out, most notably as a pro baseball player for 5 years, a stock broker, male model, and a (bad) personnel manager for a department store. Larry channeled his career mis-steps into a number of published magazine articles where he poked fun at each job experience, which led to him considering a career in writing as something he might actually be able to pull off. Taking on a gig as script writer for a small audio-visual production company in 1983, led to Brooks becomeing the executive creative director, and a partner by the time the company had become the second largest of it's kind in the region. After the company sold in 1999, Brooks took his money and began to develop the career he had been quietly working on for over twenty years - that of a novelist and screenwriter. Or as he called it, "life after death". As of late 2004, Larry Brooks is the author of four USA Today best selling novels, where he makes good use of his uh, past career knowledge. Acting as host of a 1989 television series entitled "Family Video Guide" and bit parts in five movies, including the NBC TV movie "The Marla Hanson Story" are the extent of his foray as an actor.