From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Michael L Tolkin born October 17 1950 is an American filmmaker and novelist He has written numerous screenplays including The Player 1992 which he adapted from his 1988 book by the same name and for which he received the 1993 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay A followup book The Return of the Player was published in 2006 Tolkin was born in New York City New York the son of Edith née Leibovitch a studio executive and film industry lawyer and the late comedy writer Mel Tolkin Tolkin is a graduate of Middlebury College Tolkin lives in Los Angeles with his wife Wendy Mogel parenting expert and author of bestseller The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and their two daughters Susanna and Emma Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Tolkin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia