Clyde Phillips is a prominent writer and producer for television, having created Suddenly Susan for NBC and Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and Get Real for FOX. He was executive producer of the Showtime dramas Nurse Jackie (2013–2015), and Dexter (2005–2009) for which he earned a Peabody Award in 2007. He is also the author of four bestselling mystery novels: Fall from Grace; Blindsided; Sacrifice; and Unthinkable (Amazon, 2013). Phillips is married with one daughter and lives on Martha’s Vineyard.