Gil Reavill (b. 1953) is a screenwriter, true-crime journalist, ghostwriter and author whose work has appeared in a variety of venues.
His screenplay Dirty, co-written with his writing partner Eric Saks premiered at the 2005 American Film Institute Film Festival in Los Angeles, released theatrically by Sony in February 2006. It was directed by Chris Fisher and stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Clifton Collins, Jr., Wyclef Jean and Taboo of The Black Eyed Peas.
Many of Reavill's true-crime articles appeared in Maxim magazine from 1998 to 2004. His non-fiction book, Aftermath: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home, is published by Gotham/Penguin. He is also the author of a parenting book, Raising Our Athletic Daughters, about the benefits of sports participation for girls, written with his wife, the author Jean Zimmerman.
As a ghostwriter, Reavill has collaborated on projects with Terry Irwin, the wife of Steve Irwin (Steve & Me), fomer New York Giants running back and Today Showcorrespondent Tiki Barber (Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond) and rap impresario Jerry Heller (Ruthless: A Memoir). He and Zimmerman were credited pseudonymously as Carol Calef on Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith, husband David Smith's account of the 1994 child murders of his sons, Michael and Alex.
Reavill was born in Wisconsin and educated at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Colorado. After working at daily newspapers in Colorado he moved to New York in 1981. Among his jobs in the early 1980s was working as a ghostwriter to Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine. Out of that experience grew his non-fiction book Smut (2005, Sentinel/Penguin). Reavill also wrote several plays which were produced in off-off-Broadway venues throughout the 1980s.
Beginning in 2002, a writing parnership with Eric Saks yielded the script for Dirty and several other optioned or in-development screenplays. As a song lyricist, Reavill was profiled in the August 2005 issue of American Songwriter magazine. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
