Rob Harris began his professional career as a freelance television writer for such shows as Laverne & Shirley. He moved to a staff position as head publicity writer for 20th Century Fox and, later, a brief stint as vice president of publicity in the New York office of Gramercy Pictures. He's been a unit publicist on nearly a hundred movies, including Gremlins, The Goonies, The Sandlot, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Air Force One, Men in Black II, Hannibal, The Perfect Storm, Gladiator, Frost/Nixon, Black Swan, The Bucket List, American Gangster, Revolutionary Road, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, World War Z, and Maleficent. A member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), he is the author of The Trouble with Love in the Movies, Unexposed Film: A Year on Location and The Hannibal Journal. He lives in England with his wife, Nicola Graydon Harris. Their sons, Casey and Sam, live in Los Angeles - when their band, X Ambassadors, are not touring - and in Ithaca, New York, where Casey and his family spend summers in his old family home.