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Keith Elliot Greenberg | |
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| Born | May 5, 1959 |
| Occupation(s) | Author, television producer |
| Children | Dylan Greenberg Summer Greenberg |
Keith Elliot Greenberg (born May 5, 1959) is a New York Times bestselling author [1] and television producer.
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Keith Elliot Greenberg | |
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| Born | May 5, 1959 |
| Occupation(s) | Author, television producer |
| Children | Dylan Greenberg Summer Greenberg |
Keith Elliot Greenberg (born May 5, 1959) is a New York Times bestselling author [1] and television producer.
Greenberg went to Bayside High School in Queens, graduating in January 1977. He attended a number of colleges in the New York area.
His books include Menudo,To Be the Man,Erik is Homeless, and Zack's Story. In November 2010, Backbeat Books released December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died, Greenberg's minute-by-minute account of the last day of John Lennon's life. [2]
He has written for WWE magazine, Playboy, Men's Journal, HuffPost , Maxim and The Village Voice . He previously was a producer Geraldo at Large , a prime-time television program on Fox News, America's Most Wanted and Forensic Files''. Since July 2023, he has been a producer at Dateline NBC.
In December 2010, St. Martin's Press released Love Hurts, the story of the Caffey family murder in rural Texas and Greenberg's second true-crime book for the publisher. His first was Perfect Beauty, about a murder in Ohio. In 2017, his third St. Martins true-crime book, Killing for You about a crime in Orange County, California, was released.
In 2015, two of his books were scheduled to be published, Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die, about the death of James Dean, and the cult that surrounds it (Hal Leonard/Applause Books), and an autobiography of former WWE Champion, The Iron Sheik (ECW Press). The Sheik book was cancelled. [3] Those who read it have called the book the greatest unpublished treasure in wrestling journalism. [4]
In January, 2018, the Toronto Star listed Best Seat in the House: My Life in the Jeff Healey Band, co-authored by Greenberg and former Jeff Healey Band drummer Tom Stephen, as one of its top five music book recommendations. The Toronto Globe and Mail described the book as "240 beer-soaked...and debauched pages." [5]
His 2019 book, Where You Goin' With That Gun in Your Hand? The True Crime Blotter of Rock 'n' Roll, published by Backbeat, profiles 21 deaths related to the music industry.
His book, Too Sweet: Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution, was released in 2020 by ECW Press.
While writing the "Colour Commentary" column in the publication, Inside the Ropes Wrestling Magazine in 2021, he began writing his next book for ECW Press, Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19.
ECW Press also published his book: "Bigger, Better, Badder: WrestleMania III and the Year It All Changed" in March 2025. [6] In November 2025, Random House is scheduled to release his book chronicling the first five years of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), titled "This Book is All Elite." [7]
He regularly appears on A&E's WWE Biography series, where he is listed as "WWE historian." [8]
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His first book, Menudo, was published in 1983 and was the story of Menudo, a 1980s pop band. In the mid-1980s, he began working for USA Today, and other news publishers as well.
In 1990, he wrote the PBS documentary The Blue Helmets, about United Nations peace-keeping.
After writing about professional wrestling for a number of newspapers and magazines, he became a writer, contributor, and reporter for WWE, known formerly as World Wrestling Federation, in 1985. He also co-authored a number of biographies of professional wrestlers, including Freddie Blassie, Ric Flair, [9] and Superstar Billy Graham. [10] [11]
He has two children and lives in Brooklyn, New York. [12] Keith's oldest child is underground New York filmmaker Dylan Greenberg. [13]
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