Robert Nelson Jacobs
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Robert Nelson Jacobs grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Jacobs attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary
Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his
master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Jacobs began his
career as a writer of short stories that were published in little,
prestigious magazines that generated little, prestigious income.
Jacobs' love of movies brought him to California, where it took a
number of years for his work to finally start paying the rent. In 2000,
Jacobs received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay
for Chocolat. Jacobs is a board member and past president of the Writers
Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and
preserving the craft of writing for the screen.
