Cord Jefferson

Cord Jefferson is a journalist, writer, and TV producer originally from Tucson, Arizona. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his directorial debut, American Fiction, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. He has written for The Good Place, Succession, Master of None, and Watchmen, for which he won an Emmy. His journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and Bookforum. He lives in Los Angeles.