David Elliott played a leading role in one of the top ten grossing films of 1978 and supervised the Construction Department for one of the top ten grossing films of 2000. After dropping out of High School he drove a cab in New York City, boxed professionally, ran a Private Investigation business in Hollywood, obtained an airplane pilot's license with an instrument rating, sat on the Executive Board of a major labor union, was elected President of the California Association of Judgment Enforcement Professionals, and traveled extensively through every continent except Africa and Antarctica. This year he earned a certificate in long and short fiction from the UCLA Writer's program, where he was nominated for the Kirkwood prize. He has completed a novel, The Star Shield, about one of Hollywood's top body guards attempting to rescue a kidnapped movie star, and is working on a collection of short stories that explore unusual social environments.