James Howard(b. 1956 in Sacramento, California

Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

) is a screenwriter, poet, computer game creator, and author.

Biography

James Howard worked from 1980 to 2010 as a writer for Hallmark Cards

Hallmark Cards

Hallmark Cards is a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts....

, where he created the multi-player game You Guessed It! for the CompuServe network and the first known e-greetings of the pre-Internet era for local cable and videotex systems.

Howard's poems have appeared in small journals such as New Letters and The Texas Observer

The Texas Observer

The Texas Observer is an American political newsmagazine published bi-weekly and based in Downtown Austin, Texas. The non-profit magazine is nonpartisan, but the publication has historically been an advocate for liberal politics...

, and in the anthologies From A to Z: 200 Contemporary American Poets, Voices From The Interior, and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. His essays and short prose pieces have been published in Paragraphs and My Bug.

He is author of the Hallmark books Little Glimpses of Good (2008) and I'll Be Me and You Be You (2010); a book of political humor, The Tea Party Guide to Being a Real American (2011) under the pseudonym Roland Boyle; and the blogs "Spulge Nine" and "Tea Bastard."

Howard's screenwriting credits include Big Bad Love

Big Bad Love

Big Bad Love is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown. The story recounts an episode in the life of an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and struggling writer named Leon Barlow,...

 (2001) and Dawn Anna

Dawn Anna

Dawn Anna is a television movie that premiered on Lifetime in 2005 that is based on real events.-Plot summary:The movie depicts the life of Dawn Anna, a teacher and single mother of four children. Soon after meeting her eventual husband, she is diagnosed with a severe brain disease that requires a...

 (2005), both co-written with his brother, the actor/director Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard is an American actor, writer and film director.-Life and career:Howard was born in Independence, Missouri in 1954, and graduated from Truman High School and Columbia College at Columbia, Missouri. Howard established his career with stand-out roles in Full Metal Jacket and Ruby...

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Howard is the father of three children and is married to the writer Penny Krugman. They live in Kansas City.