Ira Levin — American Novelist born on August 27, 1929,

Ira Marvin Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter, best-known for the 1968 novel Rosemary's Baby and the play Deathtrap. Five of his novels and three of his plays have been adapted to film... (wikipedia)

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.