Keith Elliot Greenberg is a New York Times best-selling author, and television producer. He was born in the Bronx in 1959, and went to Bayside High School in Queens, graduating in January 1977. He attended a number of colleges in the New York area.

Career

His many books include Menudo, To Be the Man, Erik is Homeless, and Zack's Story. In November, 2010, Backbeat Books released December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died, Greenberg's hour by hour account of the last day of the Beatles' life. He has written articles for WWE magazine, Maxim and The Village Voice

The Village Voice

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...

. He previously produced Geraldo at Large

Geraldo at Large

Geraldo at Large is a United States television newsmagazine, hosted by Fox News correspondent-at-large and former talk show host Geraldo Rivera.-History:...

, a prime time television program on Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

, and is now a producer for America's Most Wanted

America's Most Wanted

America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...

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In December 2010, St. Martins Press released Love Hurts, the story of the Caffey family murder in rural Texas and Greenberg's second true crime book for the publisher. His first was Perfect Beauty, about a murder in Ohio. He is currently researching his third St. Martins true crime book about a crime in Orange County, California.

History

His first book, Menudo, was published in 1983 and was the story of Menudo

Menudo (band)

Menudo was a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Díaz, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Latin American teen musical group of the era....

, a 1980s pop band. In the mid-1980s, he began working for USA Today, and other news publishers as well.

In 1990, he wrote the PBS documentary "The Blue Helmets", about United Nations peace keeping.

After writing about professional wrestling for a number of newspapers and magazines, he became a regular writer, contributor, and reporter for WWE, known formerly as World Wrestling Federation. He also co-authored a number of biographies of professional wrestlers, including Freddie Blassie, Ric Flair

Ric Flair

Richard Morgan Fliehr is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is one of the most well-known professional wrestlers in the world....

, and "Superstar" Billy Graham. In 2009, he co-wrote an unreleased biography of the Iron Sheik.

Now a father of two children, he currently resides in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York.