Lee Goldberg is a novelist and television writer whose TV scripting and producing credits include Diagnosis Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser For Hire, She-Wolf of London, SeaQuest, 1-800-Missing, Martial Law and Monk. He most recently wrote and produced the movie/pilot Fast Track: No Limits, which stars Erin Cahill, Andrew Walker, Alexia Barlier, and Joseph Beattie. It was shot entirely on location in Berlin.
Goldberg has written several novel adaptations of shows he has been involved in, specifically Diagnosis Murder and Monk. He has written eight Diagnosis Murder novels. The final novel in the series, The Last Word, was published in May 2007.
He has written the Monk novels Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii, Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants and Mr. Monk in Outer Space, which was published on October 30 2007.
His other novels include My Gun Has Bullets, Beyond the Beyond, .357 Vigilante (as Ian Ludlow) and The Man with the Iron-On Badge, which was nominated for the 2006 Shamus Award for Best Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America.
Goldberg has also written a number of nonfiction books, including Unsold Television Pilots (the basis for the ABC special The Best TV Shows That Never Were and the CBS special The Greatest Shows You Never Saw) and Successful Television Writing (co-written with William Rabkin).
He is currently on the board of the Mystery Writers of America and founded, with novelist Max Allan Collins, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (www.iamtw.org).
Lee Goldberg (born in 1972) is a weatherman for WABC-TV. He anchors Eyewitness News Accu-Weather coverage at 5:00pm, 6:00pm and 11:00pm. on Eyewitness News. He has been with the Accu-weather team since July 1996.
