William Rabkin is an American television producer, television writer and author.

Rabkin grew up in Berkeley, CA, where his father was a Classics professor. He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle, then received his MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, where he wrote for the Daily Bruin student newspaper.^[1][2]

He has written for a number of notable television series namely Spenser: For Hire, Murphy's Law, Hunter, Baywatch, Diagnosis Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, Monk and many other series.

Nearly all of his television work has been collaborations with fellow writer and producer Lee Goldberg, whom he met when they were both UCLA students working on Daily Bruin. They first teamed up as writers on the unmade, feature film adaptation of Goldberg's novel .357 Vigilante, beginning a professional partnership that lasted for twenty years.^[3]

Rabkin is also the author of a number of tie-in companion novels for the Psych television series,^[4] as well as the reference books Successful Television Writing (2003) (which he co-authored with Goldberg), Beginning Television Writing, (2010),^[5] and Writing the Pilot (2011).

He teaches screenwriting as part of the faculty at UC Riverside's Low-Residency Graduate Creative Writing Program in Palm Desert, California.^[6] and is assistant director of the MFA program at Long Island University^[7]

His father was Norman Rabkin (1930-2012),^[8] the Shakespearean scholar best known for his work Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning.^[9][10]

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