I Am Batman Vol. 1 - John Ridley

John Ridley is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. After both writing and directing his film debut, the 1997 crime thriller Cold Around the Heart , Ridley went on to write the novels Love Is a Racket and Everybody Smokes in Hell. His novel Spoils of War was adapted into the film Three Kings . Ridley then became a writer and a supervising producer on the NBC crime drama Third Watch . His other novels are The Drift , Those Who Walk in Darkness , and A Conversation with the Mann .