Author M. Rutledge McCall was born and raised in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. He currently resides at the ocean in California with his unfairly beautiful wife and their chatty Flame Point Siamese cat, jackrabbits, an assortment of deer, hawks, quail, turkeys, bobcats, foxes, raccoons, and turkey vultures.

As a writer, ghostwriter, and script doctor of more than 140 projects, McCall’s clientele includes people named in Newsweek and Forbes magazines’ Most Powerful People lists. He has worked with authors whose books have appeared on the best-selling lists of the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com. And he has been featured on TV news shows including NBC’s “Today”, BBC News, PBS, CNN, KNBC News’ “Nightside Cover Story”, PBS/KCET’s “Life and Times: Thinkers, Shakers and Newsmakers”, “Larry King Live”, ABC News 9 and ABC Radio Australia, and others.

He spent late 1984 through early 2000 in feature film and television production management at most of the major legacy film companies and TV networks.

In 2000, his first book, "Slipping Into Darkness: A True Story From the American Ghetto", was published, and was optioned for film by a tech industry double unicorn, setting the course for the rest of his career as an author, ghostwriter and script doctor.