Zachary Sklar

Biography

Zachary Sklar is a screenwriter, journalist, author, and editor. He is best known as co-author, with Oliver Stone, of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film JFK. His other screen credits include La Fiesta del Chivo (Feast of the Goat) and Hanyut (Almayer's Folly). He leads the screenwriting section of the Harlem Dramatic Writing Workshop and has served as a creative adviser for Sundance Screenwriting Labs around the world, from Utah to Mexico, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Cuba. He also taught magazine writing at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for a decade. As a journalist, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Huffington Post, among others. He has edited numerous non- fiction books, including the number-one-bestselling On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison, Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer by Michael Ratner, Profits of War by Ari Ben-Menashe, and Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA by Ralph McGehee. He lives in Olivebridge, New York.