Donald Platt:
CLASS OF 1987
Fairfax High SchoolClass of 1987
Los angeles, CA
George Washington High SchoolClass of 1957
San francisco, CA
Lowell High SchoolClass of 1949
San francisco, CA
Presidio Junior High SchoolClass of 1946
San francisco, CA
Cabrillo Elementary SchoolClass of 1943
San francisco, CA
Donald's Story
Life
Born and raised inside San Francisco, Donald graduated from Cabrillo Elementary, attended Presidio Jr. High, graduated from Lowell High School and received his B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley.
After serving two years in the Army, mostly in Germany, he went to graduate school at San Jose State where one of his short stories was published in the college literary magazine, THE REED, and where he won the following awards in the annual SENATIOR PHELAN LITERARY CONTEST: 1st & 2nd in Plays; 1st & 2nd in Essays; 1st & 3rd in Free Verse.
After teaching English and Creative writing at Los Gatos Union High School, he moved to southern California and began his professional writing career. He sold to the TV series, MR. NOVAK, ghosted YOUR HAIR AND YOUR DIET for health food guru, Dan Dale Alexander, and wrote for and with diverse producers, among them as Harry Joe Brown, Sig Schlager, Albert J. Cohn, and Al Ruddy as well as Paul Stader Sr., dean of Hollywood stuntman and stunt/2nd unit director. Also, options were taken on his unpublished WWII fig...Expand for more
hter ace novel and several treatments.
While living in Hollywood, he married Ellen, who is from Brazil, and he taught creative writing and Advanced placement European History at Fairax High School where he also was Social Studies Department Chairman.
After living in Florianopolis, Brazil, setting of A GATHERING OF VULTURES, they moved to Florida where he wrote as a with: VITAMIN ENRICHED, pub.1999, for Carl DeSantis, founder of Rexall Sundown Vitamins; and THE COUPLE'S DISEASE, Finding a Cure for Your Lost ÃÂLoveÃÂ Life, pub. 2002, for Lawrence S. Hakim, MD, FACS, Head of Sexual Dysfunction Unit at the Cleveland Clinic.
Currently, Donald and Ellen reside in Winter Haven, Florida. His magnum opus historical novel, ROCAMORA, set in 17th century Spain and Amsterdam during their Golden Ages, was published by RAVEN'S WING BOOKS mid-late January 2009, and its sequel. HOUSE OF ROCAMORA has been released 4 December 2012.
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Photograph of Donald Michael Platt, courtesy of:
Saska Star PhotosÃÂÃÂNew York, FloridaÃÂÃÂ(212 ) 724-6462
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