James Manos Jr.

James Manos Jr is an American screenwriter and television producer He is best known as the creator of the Showtime drama series Dexter 20062013 which he adapted from Jeff Lindsays novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter Earlier in his career Manos won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 1999 for cowriting the seminal Sopranos episode College alongside David Chase His other television writing and producing credits include The Shield ER and Southland