Aaron Benjamin Sorkin, born in Manhattan, New York, is an American screenwriter, film producer and playwright. After being a part of the drama and theatre club in Scarsdale High School, Sorkin attended Syracuse University and graduated with a BFA degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, inspite of a devastating setback. His first play, Removing All Doubt, was staged for drama students at Syracuse University, following which, he wrote Hidden In This Picture, which was turned into a full-length play called Making Movies. Some of his notable works include the Broadway plays, A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television shows, Sports Night, The West Wing (1999-2006), The Newsroom and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006); and the films, A Few Good Men (1992), The American President (1995), Charlie Wilson`s War (2007), The Social Network (2010) and Moneyball (2011), Steve Jobs (2016) and Molly`s Game (2017) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)