David E. Kelley

David Edward Kelley is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harrys Law as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks .

Kelley was born in Waterville, Maine, raised in Belmont, Massachusetts and attended the Belmont Hill School. He is the son of Boston University Terriers and New England Whalers hockey coach Jack Kelley and played the game himself. Kelley was a stick boy for the Whalers during his fathers time as coach and the captain of the hockey team at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1979 with a bachelors degree in political science.

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