Amram Ducovny

Amram Ducovny (September 11, 1927 – August 23, 2003) was an American non-fiction writer, playwright and novelist.
Life and career.
Ducovny, born as Duchovny, was born and raised in New York City area. His father, Moshe Duchovny, who came to the United States in 1918, from Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), was a noted Yiddish writer and journalist, who, among the others, wrote for the "Morning Journal". His mother, Julia, was an immigrant from Poland. Ducovny dropped the "h" in his last name to avoid its mispronunciations.
He graduated from New Utrecht High School and received a B.A. from New York University. First, he worked in public relations for the American Jewish Committee in New York, and until his retirement for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. In 1977, he moved to Boston and became director of public affairs for Brandeis University. From 1978 to 1982, he was the vice president for public affairs at the university.
Around 1964, he started his writing career. He wrote ten nonfiction books and a play "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" that was brought into Broadway in 1967, and was soon thereafter adapted for television. In 2001, Ducovny fulfilled his lifelong dream and published a novel, "Coney", that received several positive reviews. It was based on his childhood experience as a Jewish immigrant before the World War II. In 2003, Ducovny died from heart disease in Paris, where he lived. He was 75 years old at the time of his death.
His son, David Duchovny, is an actor and writer.