Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He is best known for being a staff writer for David Letterman from 1991-2015, during which time he was nominated for 15 Emmy awards. He ran a weekly humor column "The Show" in Sports Illustrated from 2002 to 2005. A collection of his columns, The Best of "The Show", was published by Warner Books in 2005.
Scheft is the author of four novels: The Ringer (2002), Time Won"t Let Maine (2005), Everything Hurts (2009) and Shrink Thyself (June 2014, Rare Bird Books).
Time Won"t Let Maine was a finalist for the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Both The Ringer and Everything Hurts have been optioned for film.
In 2011, he co-edited and wrote a foreword for the collection, America"s Gift to Golf: Herbert Warren Wind on The Masters. Scheft graduated from Harvard College in 1979 with honors.
