Career
A brilliant student, Ben Roberts entered New York University at age 16, graduating three years later. By the time he was 22, Roberts was successfully running his own independent public-relations counseling firm and was contributing comedy material to several Broadway musicals. In 1941, he collaborated with another young writer, Ivan Goff, on the theatrical suspense thriller Portrait in Black.
He briefly worked in films in the early "40s, returned to the stage for six years, then settled in Hollywood permanently in 1949.
In addition, Ben Roberts and Ivan Goff served as executive producers for the weekly television series Mannix and Nero Wolfe.