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David Benioff was born in New York City, New York. He is an American novelist, screenwriter and television producer. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones. Additionally, he attended the University of California Irvine and Trinity College Dublin, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in the creative writing program. While working as a high school English teacher, he wrote the book The 25th Hour, and later adapted it into a screenplay, which was filmed starring Edward Norton and directed by Spike Lee. He then wrote a collection of short stories titled When the Nines Roll Over in 2004. He drafted a screenplay of the mythological epic Troy for which Warner Bros pictures paid him $2.5 million. In 2008, his second novel, City of Thieves was published.