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 john sacret young screenwriter , producer , director
john sacret young

john sacret young is an author , producer , director , and screenwriter primarily in television .
young has been nominated for seven emmys and seven writers guild of america awards , winning two wga awards .
he is perhaps best known for co-creating , along with william f. broyles jr. , china beach , the critically acclaimed abc drama series about the medics and nurses during the vietnam war .
for his work on the show , young received five emmy and four writer 's guild award nominations .
the wga honored him with the award for an episode he also directed .
`` the west wing '' brought him two more emmy and two more wga nominations .
young won his second wga award for the mini-series , `` a rumor of war '' .
he 's also been honored with two christopher awards for the academy award-nominated feature film `` testament '' starring jane alexander and kevin costner and the film `` romero '' with raul julia .
young 's the holder of a golden globe , a peabody award as well , and his original mini-series about the gulf war , `` thanks of a grateful nation '' , was honored with his fifth humanitas prize nomination and second win .
he began his television work on the emmy winning best drama series , `` police story '' , and has since created , written , or executive produced five additional series and multiple mini-series and movies of the week .
young 's recently published book , `` remains : non-viewable '' was a `` los angeles times '' best seller .
elmore leonard said of it : `` young writes so well his memoir works as a novel .
he brings to life real people in dramatic situations , with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time can not quell . ''
scott turow wrote , `` ... a compelling portrait of many worlds -- yankee new england , vietnam and hollywood -- and of high adventures , antic moments , and the cycles of love and grief .
every page is wrought with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time can not quell . ''
the `` la times '' ' susan salter reynolds said , `` every family should be blessed by a historian as compassionate and wise as jsy . ''
and , steve weinberg from the san francisco chronicle told his readers , `` like the rest of the memoir , the title is poignant , subtle and brilliant ... want to study compelling prose ?
read young .
almost every sentence is perfectly crafted ... this book contains something for just about any thinking reader . ''
in reviewing young 's first novel `` the weather tomorrow '' , the `` new yorker '' called him `` a writer of effortless dexterity and a true , unaffected originality ... the story he tells cuts right to the bone . ''
`` newsweek '' 's jean strause heralded it , '' ... exceptionally fine first novel . ''
art seidenbaum of the `` los angeles times '' said , `` this is serious , touching , original fiction . ''
and the `` los angeles herald examiner '' 's digby diehl proclaimed , `` `` a brilliant debut by an l.a. novelist .
young is the first new voice in decades that might be compared to the young william faulkner ... what a rarity to discover a new los angeles writer whose control of language is precise and confident , whose sentences sparkle and glide and zoom . ''
in 2008 young partnered as executive producer with robert redford , young had written `` generations '' , a pilot for tnt , which he also directed .
