Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me. The novel was a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “The 100 Notable Books of 2022” by The New York Times. His latest novel, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, came on June 2 of this year. The Los Angeles Times hailed it for “smoothly merging the true and the invented stories and characters of 1950s Hollywood” and described the novel as “imaginatively crafted, stunningly tense, [and] historically significant.” Rasheed is also a television drama writer, producer, and showrunner. Along with his screenplay writing partner, T.J. Brady, he co-developed and was an executive producer of Bel-Air. Rasheed currently lives with his husband and their two children in Pasadena.
Rasheed Newson
