Ted Berkman's books include Cast a Giant Shadow (Kirk Douglas starred as its hero Col. Mickey Marcus in the film); To Seize the Passing Dream (biographical novel about J.M. Whistler, Oppie Award); Sabra (profiles from the Six-Day-War); My Prisoner (about Patty Hearst), and The Lady and the Law (about international attorney Fanny Holtzmann).

Berkman's movies include Fear Strikes Out (Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, Christopher Award); The Green Cockatoo (starring John Mills, adapted from story by Graham Greene); Girl of the Night (Anne Francis) and Bedtime for Bonzo (starring a former President).

In television Berkman wrote for Studio One and the Harry Truman memoir series, Decision.

A former broadcaster, Berkman has taught the biography workshops at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference since 1983. He is a lyricist and jazz pianist whose songs shared the White House stage in 1952 with compositions by Cole Porter and Jerome Kern.

Read his books:
Around the World in Eighty Years
Cast a Giant Shadow
Sabra
The Lady and the Law
To Seize the Passing Dream