Paul Davidson

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Paul Davidson, 2006.

Paul Davidson (born August 17, 1971) is an American screenwriter, author and television producer who was born in Smithtown, New York . Following a move with his family to San Francisco in 1981 he went on to attend college at the University of California, Irvine in 1989. It was after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1995 and working in film production at a variety of film companies like New Line Cinema and the Jim Henson Company that he began writing full-time. Davidson is also a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and magazines such as Wired and mental floss.

1 Books
- 1.1 Consumer Joe
- 1.2 The Lost Blogs
2 Television
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Books

[edit] Consumer Joe

While working on a reality TV show in 2001, Davidson began crafting letters to Fortune 500 companies in the hopes that he could publish a book of the correspondences. After receiving hundreds of responses and securing the Levine/Greenberg Agency as his agents, the completed project was sold to Random House in July 2002. However, the book would be harder to publish than originally thought. Due to the necessity for gaining each company's approval prior to printing the letters (due to the fact that each letter included company logos and addresses), Davidson was required by the publisher to clear each and every letter. Between August and November of 2002, Davidson did just that. The completed book was released on September 9, 2003 as "Consumer Joe: Harassing Corporate America, One Letter at a Time". As of August 2005 the book was already entering its fourth printing.

[edit] The Lost Blogs

In July 2005, Davidson sold his second humor book, "The Lost Blogs" to Time Warner. The book, which features weblogs "as written" by history's most famous figures, is set to be published on May 8, 2006.

[edit] Television

Davidson has also been involved in producing a variety of Reality tv shows including The Mole, The Benefactor and The Princes Of Malibu.

[edit] Trivia

Paul Davidson is related to 8 Simple Rules actress Amy Davidson and The State's David Wain.
Paul Davidson is often mistakenly credited with coining the phrase gleek, but probably did not, as documented by numerous sources including the Double-Tongued Dictionary in 2004.