Charlie Huston

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Charlie Huston
CHARLIE HUSTON photo credit Brian Calloway.jpg
Huston in July 2025
Born1968 (age 56–57)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • Comic book writer
  • Screenwriter
Period2004–present
SpouseVirginia Louise Smith
Website
www.charliehustonwrites.com

Charlie Huston (born 1968) is an American novelist, screenwriter and comic book writer. They [a] have written various novels in different genres, including Caught Stealing (2004) that was adapted into a 2025 film by Darren Aronofsky. They have also written the Joe Pitt Casebooks book series that features a vampiric detective, as well as several standalone novels and comic books.

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Personal background

Huston was born in Oakland, California in 1968. When they were two years old, the family moved to Livermore, California, where Huston grew up. When they were 19 years old, they attended San Francisco State University. [1] They married Virginia Louise Smith, and the couple resides in Los Angeles. [2]

Career

Caught Stealing , along with Six Bad Things and Huston's fourth novel, A Dangerous Man, follow the lovable anti-hero, baseball-mad Henry Thompson, as he struggles to escape a deadly case of mistaken identity, his past, and build a new life for himself.

In March 2024 it was announced that Huston was adapting Caught Stealing for a movie to be directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Austin Butler. The film was released on August 29th, 2025.

They wrote the five-volume contemporary vampire noir Joe Pitt Casebooks primarily while living in Manhattan, finishing the final book in the series after moving to California. Their five stand-alone novels are The Shotgun Rule, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Sleepless, Skinner and Catchpenny.

In January 2013, it was announced that Huston was working on the pilot for FX's adaption of the Powers comic series. [3] Between 2017 and 2019, they were a writer and producer on the Fox TV series Gotham.

As of September 2022, they were developing and writing an original TV pilot titled Arcadia for Tomorrow Studios. This project is currently being packaged for further development.[ citation needed ]

In April 2006, Marvel Comics launched Huston's reboot of the Marvel character Moon Knight. They wrote the first 12 issues of the series, concluding the run in December 2007. They also wrote the second Ultimates Annual issue in August 2006. Another long-form comics work was a Wolverine series, Wolverine: The Best There Is , with artist Juan José Ryp. [4]

Bibliography

Henry Thompson

Joe Pitt Casebooks

Standalone novels

Comics

To date, the entirety of Huston's work in comics has been published by Marvel and its various imprints:

Notes

  1. ↑ Huston uses they/them pronouns [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Cavallaro, Christina (October 2, 2025). "Ex-Livermorian Turns Book into Movie". The Independent . Retrieved October 15, 2025.
  2. ↑ Myers, Randy (August 28, 2025). "How Oakland author brought 'Caught Stealing' to big screen". The Mercury News . Retrieved October 15, 2025.
  3. ↑ Goldman, Eric (2013-01-10). "FX President Reveals Brian Bendis' Powers is Still in Development and Explains Plan for Guillermo del Toro's The Strain". IGN . Retrieved 2013-02-22.
  4. ↑ Richards, Dave (July 12, 2010). "Huston Makes "Wolverine: The Best There Is"". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved July 26, 2010.
Preceded by Moon Knight writer
2006–2008		Succeeded by
Preceded by Deathlok writer
2010		Succeeded by
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