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George Mastras

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http://www.goodreads.com/GeorgeMastras

born

Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

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male

website

http://georgemastras.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Kazantzakis, Hesse, Ayn Rand, Cormack McCarthy, Tom McGuane, Jack Kero...more

member since

March 2009

About this author

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George Mastras has worked as a criminal investigator for the public defender service, a counselor at a maximum security juvenile correctional facility, and a litigator in New York and Los Angeles. After ten years of practicing law, he quit his job, sold his belongings, and spent several years backpacking around the globe and trekking in the Himalayas, Karakorams, and Hindu Kush. Aside from writing fiction, he has worked as a screenwriter and currently writes for the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2008. Born in Boston, he is a graduate of Yale, UCLA Law, and Outward Bound. He was awarded the competitive Disney-ABC Writing Fellowship for Television Drama in 2005. He lives in Los...more

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Writer George Mastras Wins Pen USA Literary Award

PEN Center USA has officially announced that George Mastras has won the 2009 PEN USA Literary Award in the Teleplay category for his episode of Breaking Bad entitled "Crazy Handful of Nothin'." Mastras, also a novelist and author of FIDALI'S WAY (Scribner 2009), will receive the honor in a ceremonly to take place on December 2nd in Beverly Hills, California.

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Books by George Mastras

Average rating: 4.06 · 67 ratings · 31 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Fidali's Way: A Novel 4.08 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tranen over Kashmir 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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George Mastras is currently reading:

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

by Patrick Radden Keefe (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 11, 2009 11:47am

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

by Stieg Larsson

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George Mastras is currently reading: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Oct 11, 2009 11:47am
George Mastras is currently reading: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson	My rating:
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George Mastras gave to: Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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George Mastras gave to: Continental Drift by Russell Banks	My rating:
Oct 11, 2009 11:45am
George Mastras marked as to-read: North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots by Eleni N. Gage (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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George Mastras gave to: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy read in July, 2009	My rating:
Jul 15, 2009 07:33pm
George Mastras made a comment on Betsy's review of Strangers in the Land of Egypt "Are you enjoying this?... Looks interesting. "
Jun 16, 2009 10:22pm · see review
George Mastras made a comment on Kelli's review of The Alchemist "The Fifth Mountain was great too. Did you read that one? "
Jun 16, 2009 10:15pm · see review