William Broyles
Santa Fe, NM
Bill Broyles grew up in Baytown, Texas, attended Rice University and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, worked in the civil rights movement, and finished out the Sixties as a Marine infantry lieutenant in Vietnam. He was the founding editor of Texas Monthly and editor-in-chief of Newsweek.
Published in The New York Times, Atlantic, Esquire, and many other publications, Broyles is a successful author. He wrote the original screenplay for Cast Away (2000) and the screenplay for Jarhead (2005), and co-authored six other screenplays, including Apollo 13 (1995), Unfaithful (2002), The Polar Express (2004), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). He wrote the book Brothers in Arms and was the co-creator of the television series China Beach (1988–1991).
Broyles has lectured and taught at UCLA, USC, Rice, NYU, Columbia, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Smithsonian Institution, and The University of Texas at Austin. In 2002 he was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. He is married with five children.
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