Worley Thorne is an American screenwriter, television writer, script consultant and adjunct assistant professor of composition, critical thinking and screenwriting. Thorne's work as a writer encompasses hourlong television drama, and feature film scripts, in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, detective and mystery, legal drama, soap opera, medical drama, animal fiction and family drama.
Early life
Thorne was born in New York CityNew York, as Roscoe Worley Thorne II, to Gerald Roscoe Thorne, a sometime model, Broadway chorus boy and salesman, and Teri Goldenberg Thorne, a chorus girl and garment samplemaker, who eventually rose through the ranks to become a ladies fashion designer. Gerald had been raised in Indiana by his parents, Dr. Roscoe Worley Thorne I, a physician and Methodist minister and Pearl Garner Thorne. Teri had been born, and spent her teen years in, Benedek-falva, Hungary, to Alexander Goldenberg, a designer-builder of monuments and the village's innkeeper, and Szerena Markovits Goldenberg, daughter of a Jewish rabbi.
Thorne was raised in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science, a school for gifted students. He graduated from the City University of New YorkCity College, with a B.A. in English,[citation needed] and in May 2011, received his M.A. with honors in English literature from California State University Northridge. He is married to Patricia Thorne, a poet, fiction, prose, and non-fiction writer who received her M.F.A in creative writing with Honors from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2017. She is published in university periodicals, and has a forthcoming fiction novel soon to be published.
