# Gil Reavill > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gil_Reavill > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gil_Reavill.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Reavill > Source revision: 1310289712 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Gil Reavill** (born 1953) is an American author, [journalist](/source/Journalist) and screenwriter whose work has appeared in a variety of media. ## Early and personal life Reavill was born in Wausau, [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin), and educated at the [University of Wisconsin–Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison) and the [University of Colorado](/source/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder). He lives in New York with his wife and daughter. ## Career After working at daily newspapers in [Colorado](/source/Colorado), Reavill moved to New York in 1981. Among his jobs in the early 1980s was ghostwriting for [Al Goldstein](/source/Al_Goldstein), publisher of *[Screw](/source/Screw_(magazine))* magazine. Out of that experience grew his non-fiction book *Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough*. In addition, Reavill wrote several plays produced in [off-off-Broadway](/source/Off-off-Broadway) venues throughout the 1980s. Many of Reavill's true-crime articles appeared in *[Maxim](/source/Maxim_(magazine))* from 1998 to 2004. His non-fiction books include *Aftermath: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home* and *Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem And Save Girls' Lives*, penned with his wife [Jean Zimmerman](/source/Jean_Zimmerman).[1][2] Beginning in 2002, a writing partnership with Eric Saks yielded the screenplay for the film *[Dirty](/source/Dirty_(2005_film))* and several other optioned or in-development screenplays. *Dirty*, directed by [Chris Fisher](/source/Chris_Fisher_(director)), premiered at the 2005 [American Film Institute](/source/American_Film_Institute) Film Festival in Los Angeles and stars [Cuba Gooding, Jr.](/source/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr.), [Clifton Collins, Jr.](/source/Clifton_Collins,_Jr.), [Wyclef Jean](/source/Wyclef_Jean) and Taboo of [The Black Eyed Peas](/source/The_Black_Eyed_Peas). Reavill's ghostwriting collaborations include projects with [Terri Irwin](/source/Terri_Irwin), the widow of [Steve Irwin](/source/Steve_Irwin) (*Steve & Me: Life with the Crocodile Hunter*), [Tiki Barber](/source/Tiki_Barber) (*Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond*) and [Jerry Heller](/source/Jerry_Heller) (*Ruthless: A Memoir*). He and Zimmerman were credited pseudonymously as Carol Calef on *Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith*, [David Smith](/source/Susan_Smith)'s account of the 1994 murders of his sons, Michael and Alex. The August 2005 issue of *American Songwriter* magazine profiled Reavill as a song lyricist. ## List of works **As himself:** - *Manhattan*, with [Jean Zimmerman](/source/Jean_Zimmerman) (1994) - *Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem And Save Girls' Lives* (1998) - *Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough* (2005) - *Aftermath: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home* (2007) - *Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That [Unmasked](/source/Danny_Aiello) the Mob* (2012) - *Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog*, with Lloyd Handwerker (2016) - *“13” Series of Crime Novels* Beginning in 2015, Random House's Alibi imprint e-published Reavill's trilogy featuring Los Angeles County sheriff's detective Layla Remington.[3] The “13” in the titles refers to the common body count in each of the three storylines. The first number in the series, *13 Hollywood Apes*, landed a Thriller nomination from the [International Thriller Writers](/source/International_Thriller_Writers) organization.[4] It was followed by *13 Stolen Girls*and *13 Under the Wire*. - *This Land is no Stranger*, with Sarah Hollister (2021) **As a ghostwriter:** - *Beyond All Reason: My Life with Susan Smith* (1995) - *Ruthless: A Memoir* (2007) - *Steve & Me: Life with the Crocodile Hunter* (2007) - *Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond* (2007) - *Eye Wide Open: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife*, by [Peter Gatien](/source/Peter_Gatien) (2019) - *I’ll Never Change My Name:An Immigrant's American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars*, by [Val Chmerkovskiy](/source/Val_Chmerkovskiy) (2018) - *I Only Know Who I Am When I Am Someone Else: My Life On the Street, On the Stage and In the Movies*, by [Danny Aiello](/source/Danny_Aiello) (2014) ## References 1. ["Penguin Group USA Spring-Summer 2007"](http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pdf/academic/Spring-Summer-2007-TN.pdf). [Penguin Group](/source/Penguin_Group). 2007. Retrieved April 3, 2009. [dead link] 1. ["Raising Our Athletic Daughters"](http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385489607&view=rg). [Random House](/source/Random_House). Retrieved April 3, 2009. 1. ["Layla Remington Series"](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LYR/layla-remington) 1. ["The 2018 Thriller Awards"](http://thrillerwriters.org/programs/award-nominees-and-winners/) ## External links - [Gil Reavill](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802798/) at IMDb - [Dirty Writers blog](http://www.dirtywriters.blogspot.com) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Gil Reavill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Reavill) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Reavill?action=history)). 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