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Bob Herzberg

Bob Herzberg

Bob Herzberg was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1956.  He had graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and went on to take a variety of jobs, from truck driver to warehouse manager to salesman.  He always wanted to act in plays and do comedy and soon started performing in community theaters and colleges around New York.  By the 1990s, Bob had performed standup comedy, improv and murder mystery/dinner theater at clubs in both N.Y. and Hollywood.  Around the same time, he wrote and co-starred in The Melnicks series on local TV, which had been aired on both coasts.  He is a member of Western Writers of America and soon will be in the Mystery Writers of America. 

In the past twenty years, Bob has had nine books published on film history: Shooting Scripts, From Pulp Western to Film, which is about western authors and the films made from their works; The FBI & the Movies, which focuses on films with FBI characters and the Bureau’s influence on these productions; Savages & Saints: the Changing Image of American Indian in Westerns, which details the Indian Wars and the films made about them; The Left Side of the Screen which focuses on Communists and Liberals in Hollywood during the years 1929-2009; and Revolutionary Mexico on Screen: A Critical History, 1914-2014. 

Since 2020, Wolfpack has published five of his western novels:  the range war drama inspired by the Johnson County War, The McDermott Fifty; Sidearm, set during the Civil War about a young Kansan pursuing gang of southern guerrillas who kidnapped his little sister; another range war novel, though featuring a Black hero, Borderline; and a novel inspired by the Reno gang, The Outlaws Hennessey.  His newest for Wolfpack is Bloody Trails: A Western Double, featuring the grisly Krainer’s Cabin, about a woman’s pursuit of a family of killers, and the post-Civil War western, Quantrill’s Gold.  In 2008, he appeared on TV-Land’s Myths & Scandals in a sequence about the FBI; in 2013, he appeared as a commentator on the 20th anniversary Blu-ray edition of The Fugitive.  Bob’s latest book on film history, Lynchings on Screen, 1904-1925 is on pre-order from McFarland. 

In the past few years, he’s been on many podcasts discussing his books, as well as history, politics, or anything else they feel like asking him.  For 30 years, he’s been happily married to the lovely actress/poet Colleen Hayden.  One day they hope to live out west.

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