Lowell Cauffiel
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Lowell Cauffiel, born in Michigan, USA
, is an American writer and TV producer.
An award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, Cauffiel began his bookwriting career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title and his 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets have appeared on many critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he's known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style. Thematically, Cauffiel's books often explore how people embrace popular trends and exalt American values to hide their dark intentions and destructive acts.
In the mid 1990s, Cauffiel also turned his attention to crime novels, publishing three fiction titles. He credits the off-beat humor and high-contrast scenes found in his fiction to his years spent as a reporter in the volatile streets of Detroit and the many years he worked as a blues guitarist with the Progressive Blues Band in Motor City nightclubs.
Listed among the admirers of Cauffiel's works are acclaimed best-selling authors Jack Olsen
, Gay Talese
, Ann Rule
and Elmore Leonard
.
In 2002, Cauffiel began writing and producing crime documentaries. A long-time Michiganian, in 2003 he relocated to Los Angeles to draw on his diverse experiences as a journalist and create series television.
Cauffiel is an avid surfer and motorcyclist. He's also worked in alcohol and drug rehabilitation
circles as a volunteer and headed a research grant about alcohol problems among young people for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) for the National Institutes of Health.
He is the father of actress Jessica Cauffiel
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, is an American writer and TV producer.
An award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, Cauffiel began his bookwriting career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title and his 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets have appeared on many critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he's known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style. Thematically, Cauffiel's books often explore how people embrace popular trends and exalt American values to hide their dark intentions and destructive acts.
In the mid 1990s, Cauffiel also turned his attention to crime novels, publishing three fiction titles. He credits the off-beat humor and high-contrast scenes found in his fiction to his years spent as a reporter in the volatile streets of Detroit and the many years he worked as a blues guitarist with the Progressive Blues Band in Motor City nightclubs.
Listed among the admirers of Cauffiel's works are acclaimed best-selling authors Jack Olsen
Jack Olsen
Jack Olsen was an American journalist and author known for his thorough, scholarly approach to crime reporting. Olsen was Senior Editor and Chief for the Sun-Times in Chicago Illinois in 1954...
, Gay Talese
Gay Talese
Gay Talese is an American author. He wrote for The New York Times in the early 1960s and helped to define literary journalism...
, Ann Rule
Ann Rule
Ann Rule is an American true crime writer.-Personal life:Ann Rule was born on October 22, 1935 in Lowell, Michigan to Chester R. "Stack" Stackhouse and Sophie Hansen. Her mother was a school teacher, specializing in developmentally disabled children and her father was a basketball, football and...
and Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
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In 2002, Cauffiel began writing and producing crime documentaries. A long-time Michiganian, in 2003 he relocated to Los Angeles to draw on his diverse experiences as a journalist and create series television.
Cauffiel is an avid surfer and motorcyclist. He's also worked in alcohol and drug rehabilitation
Drug rehabilitation
Drug rehabilitation is a term for the processes of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines...
circles as a volunteer and headed a research grant about alcohol problems among young people for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) for the National Institutes of Health.
He is the father of actress Jessica Cauffiel
Jessica Cauffiel
Jessica Cauffiel is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Cauffiel was born in Detroit, Michigan; her mother is a social worker and her father is Lowell Cauffiel, a best-selling true crime author, screenwriter and television documentary producer...
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Non fiction
- Masquerade (1988)
- Forever and Five Days (1992)
- The Bobbitt Case -- You Decide (1994) as Peter Kane.
- Eye of the Beholder (1994)
- House of Secrets (1998)
Filmography
Writer and producer of:- Prison Boot Camp (2002) (TV)
- Love Behind Bars (2003) (TV)