{{short description|American screenwriter}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=February 2021}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2021}} {{Unreliable sources|date=February 2021}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2011}}
'''Gene Palumbo''' (November 10, 1945 – October 10, 2000)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658855/bio Gene Palumbo biography - IMDb.com]</ref> was an American television producer and writer.
==Career== Palumbo served as the head writer of the CBS Daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light'' with L. Virginia Browne from 1982 to 1983, where he won a 1982 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658855/awards Gene Palumbo awards - IMDb.com]</ref>
He later co-created ''Rituals'', which ran from 1984 to 1985.
Palumbo was the head writer of the ABC Daytime serial ''General Hospital'' from 1989 to 1991, replacing Ann Marcus after the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. He was himself replaced in 1991 with Norma Monty, the sister of Executive Producer and former head writer Gloria Monty, who had returned to the series in 1990. Palumbo then served as head writer for NBC Daytime's ''Days of Our Lives'' from June 19, 1991, to August 6, 1992. He was hired by Ken Corday in March 1991.
==Awards and nominations== '''Daytime Emmy Awards'''
'''WINS''' *(1982; Best Writing; ''Guiding Light'')
'''Writers Guild of America Award'''
'''NOMINATIONS''' *(1992 seasons; ''Days of Our Lives'')
==HW history== {{s-start}} {{succession box | before = Pat Falken Smith | title = Head writer of ''Guiding Light'' (with L. Virginia Browne) | after = Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton and Gary Tomlin | years = November 29, 1982 - March 1983 }} {{succession box | before = Pat Falken Smith | title = Head writer of ''General Hospital'' (with Norma Monty and John Whelpley: 1991) | after = Norma Monty | years = May 1989 - April 1991 }} {{succession box | before = Richard J. Allen <br> Anne Schoettle | title = Head writer of ''Days of Our Lives'' | after = Richard J. Allen <br> Beth Milstein | years = June 19, 1991 - January 30, 1992 }} {{succession box | before = Sheri Anderson | title = Head writer of ''Days of Our Lives'' (with Sheri Anderson) | after = Sheri Anderson | years = July 10, 1992 - August 6, 1992 }} {{s-end}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0658855}}
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