Jeremy Doner (born April 10, 1972) is an American

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Early life

Doner was born in

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and grew up in the nearby village Franklin, though he and his family moved to

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when he was nine years old. He first became interested in writing when he visited an abandoned gas station called Space 2B which had been remodeled into a poetry and performance space where he listened to writers such as Pedro Pietri and

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reading their work. He met Ginsberg, who convinced him to read his own poems at the space. Doner attended

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, majoring in Biological Anthropology and Psychology and taking a number of film as literature classes. In his second year, he changed his major to English so that he could write a

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for his creative thesis. He had to go before a panel of seven professors to request to write a screenplay, as the first student to do so. He wrote his first script and, after graduating magna cum laude in 1994, used it to apply for the

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as a screenwriting fellow, from where he graduated in 1996.

Career

Doner's first feature was the 1997

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'' Legend of the Lost Tomb'', based on

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' young adult adventure novel. He wrote the adapted screenplay after working as a location accountant on the set of '' White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild'', produced by Julie Corman, who he showed his experimental short scripts. She liked the scripts and asked him to write the script for the novel which she had optioned. She took the finished script to Showtime, who green-lighted the project. He was a writer on the legal drama series ''

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'', for which he was nominated for a

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with show's other writers in the 2008 New Series category. He is also the writer of three episodes for the serial crime drama '' The Killing''. He also co-wrote the 2022 film biopic '' Elvis''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Doner, Jeremy 1974 births Living people American male screenwriters American television writers Harvard College alumni Writers from Detroit American male television writers People from Franklin, Michigan Screenwriters from Michigan