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George Mastras

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Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

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http://georgemastras.com

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Kazantzakis, Hesse, Ayn Rand, Cormack McCarthy, Tom McGuane, Jack Kero ...more

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George Mastras has worked as a criminal investigator for the public defender service, a counselor at a maximum security juvenile correctional facility, and a litigator in New York and Los Angeles. After ten years of practicing law, he quit his job, sold his belongings, and spent several years backpacking around the globe and trekking in the Himalayas, Karakorams, and Hindu Kush. Aside from writing fiction, he works as a screenwriter and has written and directed for the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, for which he won an Emmy Award. He has also been awarded several Writers' Guild Awards, won the Pen USA Literary Award, and has been nominated for an Edgar. Born in Boston, he is a graduate of Yale, UCLA Law, and Outward Bound. He was aw ...more

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Writer George Mastras Wins Pen USA Literary Award

PEN Center USA has officially announced that George Mastras has won the 2009 PEN USA Literary Award in the Teleplay category for his episode of Breaking Bad entitled "Crazy Handful of Nothin'." Mastras, also a novelist and author of FIDALI'S WAY (Scribner 2009), will receive the honor in a ceremonly to take place on December 2nd in Beverly Hills, California.

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