caption birth_place influences imagesize nationality birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
j. neil schulman forest hills , new york robert lewis anthony burgess alfred hitchcock samuel edward konkin iii milton a. friedman murray rothbard heinlein august 2011 ayn rand c. s. 200px american 16 april 1953 20th-century , 21st-century . libertarian science fiction , comedy . j. neil schulman
 j. neil schulman novelist , publisher . , filmmaker , actor , journalist , composer
j. neil schulman

joseph neil schulman -lrb- born april 16 , 1953 in forest hills , queens , u.s. -rrb- is a novelist who wrote `` alongside night '' -lrb- published 1979 -rrb- and `` the rainbow cadenza '' -lrb- published 1983 -rrb- which both received the prometheus award , a libertarian science fiction award .
his third novel , `` escape from heaven '' , was also a finalist for the 2002 prometheus award .
in addition , schulman is the author of nine other books currently in print , including a short story collection , `` nasty , brutish , and short stories '' , `` stopping power : why 70 million americans own guns '' , and `` the robert heinlein interview and other heinleiniana '' .
he is writer of the `` twilight zone '' episode `` profile in silver '' , first broadcast on cbs march 7 , 1986 .
