Joseph Hanania has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has also written documentaries for CBS-TV and HBO, and taught screenwriting at UCLA Extension.

He is currently completing a non-fiction book about an orphaned Jewish merchant who rescued 1,350 Jews from the Holocaust by sailing them out of Europe on the Danube River.

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