Casey Sherman

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Casey Sherman
Sherman in 2010
Born	Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation(s)	Novelist, journalist, screenwriter

Casey Sherman is an American author, journalist and screenwriter most famous for his 2009 book The Finest Hours, which was adapted into the Disney Studios 2016 film of the same name, and Boston Strong, which was adapted into the 2016 film Patriots Day.

Biography

Sherman was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He attended Barnstable High School and graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1988. He studied at Boston University, graduating in 1992.

As a television news producer for

Sherman also co-wrote The Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS and the New York Times Best-seller 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption with Dave Wedge. Both books are now in development as major motion pictures, as is Sherman's 2013 true crime drama, Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob's Most Feared Assassin with 20th Century FOX.

In 2018, Sherman reunited with Michael J. Tougias to write the Cold War drama Above & Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission.

In 2020, Sherman co-wrote the acclaimed true-crime thriller Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of Capture & Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss with Dave Wedge and partnered with James Patterson to write the New York Times Best-seller The Last Days of John Lennon, also with Dave Wedge.

In 2022, Sherman wrote the best-selling true crime thriller Helltown: The Untold Story of A Serial Killer on Cape Cod, chronicling the Tony Costa murders. Helltown is now in development for a limited television series with Amazon Studio starring Oscar Isaac and directed by Edward Berger.

In 2023, Sherman wrote his 16th thriller, A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime, which was published in 2024 and became a USA Today best-seller and a Los Angeles Times best-seller. The book re-examines the story of Lana Turner and the death of her gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato.

Sherman is also a member of the famed Whydah Gally investigative team. In 2018, Sherman led an expedition to Devon, England to locate a blood relative of legendary pirate captain Samuel Bellamy and obtain their DNA for comparison to a human bone discovered in the shipwreck by Barry Clifford. The bone was examined by forensic scientists at the University of New Haven and deemed not a match. But the sample of Bellamy's DNA has been preserved for future analysis of at least six new skeletal remains recently found in the shipwreck. The DNA investigation is ongoing and could take several years.

Sherman is represented by The

• "The Way Back" (2014, with Dave Wedge), in Esquire
• "President Trump Needs to Learn Something about Diplomacy - and Fast" (2018) in The Washington Post
• "Blood in the Water" (2019) in
  Boston Magazine
• "Cape Fear" (2020) in
  Boston Magazine

Biographies

• The Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS (2017, with Dave Wedge)
• The Last Days of John Lennon (2020, with James Patterson and Dave Wedge.

True events

• A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler (2003)
• Search for the Strangler: My Hunt for Boston's Most Notorious Killer (2005)
• The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue (2009, with Michael J. Tougias)

  Young Readers Edition: The Finest Hours (2014)

• Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains (2009)
• Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob's Most Feared Assassin (2013)
• Boston Strong: A City's Triumph over Tragedy (2015, with Dave Wedge)
• 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption (2018, with Dave Wedge)
• Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss (2020, with Dave Wedge)
• Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod(2022)
• A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime(2024)

History

• Above & Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission (2018, with Michael J. Tougias)

Adaptations

• The Finest Hours (2016), film directed by Craig Gillespie, based on non-fiction book The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

• Patriots Day(2016), film directed by Peter Berg, based on non-fiction book Boston Strong

• Hunting Whitey(2023), starring Neal McDonough, based on non-fiction book Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss

References

• 1. Lauren Beckham Falcone, Time Spent with Finest Hours Writer Casey Sherman The Boston Herald, June 16, 2009
• 2. Laura Raposa There Will Be Bad Blood The Boston Herald, April 4, 2010

External links

• Casey Sherman at
  IMDb
• "Hunting the Killer", Thomas Fields-Meyer People, November 27, 2000, Vol. 54, No. 22
• http://video.foxnews.com/v/3937063/the-finest-hours/
• http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1244510
• http://www.boston.com/sports/media/2018/12/19/netflix-pete-frates-life-movie
• https://deadline.com/2018/08/blackkklansman-charlie-wachtel-david-rabinowitz-boston-mob-film-thacher-island-fox-2000-joe-the-animal-barboza-greg-berlanti-sarah-schechter-1202439113/
• https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2018/04/17/when-cuban-missile-crisis-almost-became-war/ND2IsVQ2mB1XnVfqVkaqJJ/story.html
• https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/12/04/james-patterson-last-days-of-john-lennon
• https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/whitey-bulger-tv-series-sky-studios-double-nickel-fort-point-1203355797/