James L. White most recently wrote the screenplay for Universal Pictures’ Oscar winning Ray starring Jamie Foxx and directed by Taylor Hackford. The film has earned critical acclaim and numerous awards. White hails from Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. After high school, White left Kentucky and joined the U.S. Navy, achieving rank as a communications supervisor, serving on destroyers. After four years in the military, White attended the University Of Massachusetts (Boston) on his G.I. Bill. White moved to California to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. Sidney Poitier and Columbia Pictures first hired him in 1993, to write Red Money (a.k.a. The Better Half). In 1994, the John Davis Company and Fox Television hired him to write The Bo Jackson Story. The following year, 1995, MGM (with David Ladd as the executive on the project, The Harlem Six) retained James to pen the screenplay. In 1997, the award-winning Danny Glover series American Dreamer hired White to write an episode of American Dreamer II for HBO. White lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, Liz, their three children and their cat, Neo.