John Sacret Young

John Sacret Young is an author, producer, director, and screenwriter primarily in television. Young has been nominated for seven Emmys and seven Writers Guild of America Awards, winning two WGA Awards.

He is perhaps best known for co-creating, along with William F. Broyles Jr., China Beach, the critically acclaimed ABC drama series about the medics and nurses during the Vietnam War. For his work on the show, Young received five Emmy and four Writer’s Guild Award nominations. The WGA honored him with the Award for an episode he also directed.

The West Wing brought him two more Emmy and two more WGA nominations.

Young won his second WGA Award for the mini-series, A Rumor of War. He's also been honored with two Christopher Awards for the Academy Award-nominated feature film Testament starring Jane Alexander and Kevin Costner and the film Romero with Raul Julia. Young's the holder of a Golden Globe, a Peabody Award as well, and his original mini-series about the Gulf War, Thanks of a Grateful Nation, was honored with his fifth Humanitas Prize nomination and second win. He began his television work on the Emmy winning Best Drama series, Police Story, and has since created, written, or Executive Produced five additional series and multiple mini-series and movies of the week.

Young’s recently published book, Remains: Non-Viewable was a Los Angeles Times best seller. Elmore Leonard said of it: "Young writes so well his memoir works as a novel. He brings to life real people in dramatic situations, with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time cannot quell." Scott Turow wrote, “…a compelling portrait of many worlds—Yankee New England, Vietnam and Hollywood—and of high adventures, antic moments, and the cycles of love and grief. Every page is wrought with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time cannot quell." The LA Times’ Susan Salter Reynolds said, "Every family should be blessed by a historian as compassionate and wise as JSY." And, Steve Weinberg from The San Francisco Chronicle told his readers, "Like the rest of the memoir, the title is poignant, subtle and brilliant.... Want to study compelling prose? Read Young. Almost every sentence is perfectly crafted.... This book contains something for just about any thinking reader."

In reviewing Young’s first novel The Weather Tomorrow, The New Yorker called him “a writer of effortless dexterity and a true, unaffected originality . . . The story he tells cuts right to the bone.” Newsweek’s Jean Strause heralded it, "...Exceptionally fine first novel." Art Seidenbaum of the Los Angeles Times said, "This is serious, touching, original fiction." And the Los Angeles Herald Examiner’s Digby Diehl proclaimed, “"A brilliant debut by an L.A. novelist. Young is the first new voice in decades that might be compared to the young William Faulkner...What a rarity to discover a new Los Angeles writer whose control of language is precise and confident, whose sentences sparkle and glide and zoom."

Presently, partnered as Executive Producer with Robert Redford, he’s written Generations, a pilot for TNT, which he will also direct.

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