Robert Bookman has been a senior motion picture literary and director’s agent at Creative Artists Agency since 1986 and is a partner. Prior to that, he was executive vice-president, production at Columbia Pictures, vice-president in charge of production at ABC Motion Pictures, and an agent at ICM. He is involved in various organizations as well, including Doctors Without Borders/USA, the Los Angeles Center for the Performing Arts, and the Yale Law School Campaign Committee.

Nora Ephron was the first modern woman that agent Robert Bookman ever knew. He writes about her natural, effortless quality.

Robert Bookman only met his son’s first girlfriend, Olivia, once. But when the 17 year old passed away, he became determined to unlock the root cause of his overwhelming grief.