Keith Elliot Greenberg
Keith Elliot Greenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 5, 1959 |
| Occupation(s) | Author, television producer |
| Children | Dylan Greenberg Summer Greenberg |
Keith Elliot Greenberg (born May 5, 1959) is an author and television producer.
Education
Greenberg went to Bayside High School in Queens, graduating in January 1977. He attended a number of colleges in the New York area.
Career
His books include Menudo, To Be the Man, Erik is Homeless, and Zack's Story. In November 2010, Backbeat Books released December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died, Greenberg's minute-by-minute account of the last day of John Lennon's life.[1]
He has written for WWE magazine, Playboy, Men's Journal, HuffPost, Maxim and The Village Voice. He previously was a producer Geraldo at Large, a prime-time television program on Fox News, America's Most Wanted and Forensic Files''. Since July 2023, he has been a producer at Dateline NBC.
In December 2010, St. Martin's Press released Love Hurts, the story of the Caffey family murder in rural Texas and Greenberg's second true-crime book for the publisher. His first was Perfect Beauty, about a murder in Ohio. In 2017, his third St. Martins true-crime book, Killing for You about a crime in Orange County, California, was released.
In 2015, two of his books were scheduled to be published, Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die, about the death of James Dean, and the cult that surrounds it (Hal Leonard/Applause Books), and an autobiography of former WWE Champion, the Iron Sheik (ECW Press). The Sheik book was cancelled. Those who read it have called the book the greatest unpublished treasure in wrestling journalism.[2]
In January, 2018, the Toronto Star listed Best Seat in the House: My Life in the Jeff Healey Band, co-authored by Greenberg and former Jeff Healey Band drummer Tom Stephen, as one of its top five music book recommendations. The Toronto Globe and Mail described the book as "240 beer-soaked...and debauched pages."[3]
His 2019 book, Where You Goin' With That Gun in Your Hand? The True Crime Blotter of Rock 'n' Roll, published by Backbeat, profiles 21 deaths related to the music industry.
His book, Too Sweet: Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution, was released in 2020 by ECW Press.
While writing the "Colour Commentary" column in the publication, Inside the Ropes Wrestling Magazine in 2021, he began writing his next book for ECW Press, Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19.
ECW Press also published his book: "Bigger, Better, Badder: WrestleMania III and the Year It All Changed" in March 2025.[4]
He regularly appears on A&E's WWE Biography series, where he is listed as "WWE historian."[5]
History
His first book, Menudo, was published in 1983 and was the story of Menudo, a 1980s pop band. In the mid-1980s, he began working for USA Today, and other news publishers as well.
In 1990, he wrote the PBS documentary The Blue Helmets, about United Nations peace-keeping.
After writing about professional wrestling for a number of newspapers and magazines, he became a writer, contributor, and reporter for WWE, known formerly as World Wrestling Federation, in 1985. He also co-authored a number of biographies of professional wrestlers, including Freddie Blassie, Ric Flair,[6] and Superstar Billy Graham.[7][8]
Personal life
He has two children and lives in Brooklyn, New York.[9] Keith's oldest child is underground New York filmmaker Dylan Greenberg.[10]
References
- ^ "Meet the author: Keith Elliot Greenberg". BBC News. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Ginzburg, Evan (June 12, 2023). "My Wild Weekend At The Iron Sheik's House". Pro Wrestling Stories. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Wheeler, Brad (December 12, 2018). "Review: Best Seat in the House throws beloved Canadian musical son Jeff Healey under the bus". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN6X1XSY/. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ WWE Historian Keith Elliot Greenberg talks WWE on A&E, WWE Rivals, Stone Cold Steve Austin and more!. Knockouts and 3 Counts. April 30, 2023. Retrieved July 9, 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ Leighty Jr., Robert. "411's Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair Report". 411MANIA. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (May 19, 2023). "Superstar Billy Graham, Model of the Buff, Blond Wrestler, Dies at 79". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Olshansky, Elliot (August 9, 2008). "Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant sowed the seeds of a slam at Shea Stadium". Daily News. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ^ "Keith Elliot Greenberg - Authors, - Lerner Publishing Group". lernerbooks.com. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Lee Oakes, Jason (March 22, 2024). "Dylan Mars Greenberg drops "Glow in the Dark" single & vid from latest psychotronic feature film project, premiering at Museum of the Moving Image on 3/30/24 – THE DELI". Retrieved July 9, 2024.