CHRISTOPHER TRUMBO (Playwright) was born in Los Angeles in 1940. His family spent two-and-a-half years in Mexico after his father was released from prison in 1951. A graduate of Columbia College in New York City, Mr. Trumbo began working in motion pictures in 1960 as an assistant director on Otto Preminger's production of Exodus. For the last thirty-five years he has worked as a writer, primarily in the motion picture and television industries. He shared a writing credit with his father on the television film, Ishi: The Last of his Tribe, completing the project after his father died. His most recent project is the motion picture script for Sinatraland, to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich.