Stephen Geller

Stephen D. Geller (born August 31, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, and has worked in the film industry in Hollywood and Europe. Geller directed his own independent feature titled Mother's Little Helpers.

Career Geller grew up in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. His father, a musician and arranger for CBS, was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the '50s, forcing the family to move to Paris, France.

Educated at Dartmouth College

Works Screenplays The Valachi Papers (co-writer) (1972) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Ashanti (1979) Warburg: A Man of Influence (co-writer) (1992) Mother's Little Helpers (also directed) (2005)

Novels She Let Him Continue (1966), made into the film Pretty Poison (1968) Pit Bull (1967) Joop's Dance (1969) Gad (1979) Feist (2012) Jews on the Moon (2013) Jews Beyond Jupiter (2013) Jews in Black Holes (2013) Jews and the Theories of String (2013) Jews at the Table, Volumes 1 & 2 (the previous four novels, set in two editions) (2013) A Warning of Golems (2013) Martinis at Dawn (2014) Jews in the Bosom of the Big Bang (2014) Jews in dark matter: with Jesus, the Christ, and Other Big Surprises (2017)

Nonfiction Screenwriting: A Method (1985) Two Excerpts from a Novel-in-Progress (2015) Sabbath-on-Swathe: an authorized autobiography (2018)

Awards Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival, Slaughterhouse-Five; First Hugo Science-Fiction Film Award, Slaughterhouse-Five. European Silver Award for best miniseries, Warburg: A Man of Influence Zoetrope International Internet Film Festival, Cuppa Cabby, Piece O' Pie Connecticut Governor General's Award, "Water Water Everywhere"