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- Height5′ 11½″ (1.82 m)
- William Monahan was born on November 3, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Departed (2006), London Boulevard (2010) and Edge of Darkness (2010).
- In the book "A Mind for Murder: Harvard and the Unabomber", by Alston Chase, William Monahan is identified as being the only person to solve the bomber's lexically-based targeting methodology before the Unabomber's capture.
- Won Pushcart Prize for literary short fiction, 1996. He also sold the novel "Light House: A Trifle" to the Penguin Putnam imprint Riverhead Books. Light House was optioned by Warner Brothers and Monahan wrote the script and became a WGA screenwriter when he was 35 years old.
- Was paid a mid-six figure sum for his original epic _Tripoli (2007)_ in the fall of 2000. That script landed him the deal to write the original screenplay Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Both were set up for Ridley Scott to direct. Monahan wrote three other screenplays for Scott.
- Former Spy magazine editor
- One of 115 invitees to join AMPAS in 2007.
- I wanted to be an old-fashioned man of letters, so I essentially prepared myself very carefully through my 20s for a job that doesn't exist anymore....Just before all this happened, I thought, 'Out of everything you can do or think you can do, pick one thing and be it.' What I picked was to be the screenwriter.
- Marlowe (2023) - €588,500
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