Claim: Veronika Decides to Die is written by a man.

Larry Gross -LRB- born 1953 -RRB- is an American screenwriter , producer , and director . He is a visiting professor of film and new media at New York University Abu Dhabi . Best known for his collaborations with Walter Hill , his credits include 48 Hrs . -LRB- 1982 -RRB- , Streets of Fire -LRB- 1984 -RRB- , and uncredited contributions to Ralph Bakshi 's Cool World -LRB- 1992 -RRB- . He won the 2004 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for We Do n't Live Here Anymore -LRB- 2004 -RRB- . His criticism has appeared in Film Comment and Sight & Sound .   Gross attended St Edmund Hall , Oxford and Bard College , from which he graduated in 1974 . He later completed an MA in English at Columbia University -LRB- where he subsequently served as an adjunct assistant professor of film -RRB- and an MA in film studies at New York University .   In 2008 , Gross who is the co-writer of 48 Hrs . has his contemporaneous diary of his days on set published on the MovieCityNews website .