Background
Hawley was born and raised in New York City, New New York His mother, Louise Armstrong, was a non-fiction writer and activist, and his maternal grandmother was a playwright.
composer screenwriter writer film producer
Hawley was born and raised in New York City, New New York His mother, Louise Armstrong, was a non-fiction writer and activist, and his maternal grandmother was a playwright.
Sarah Lawrence College.
Hawley was a writer and producer on the first three seasons of the television series Bones (2005–2008) and also created The Unusuals (2009) and My Generation (2010). He wrote the screenplay for the film The Alibi (2006). His father, Tom Hawley, was a businessman.
He has a twin brother, Alexi, who is a writer for the television show The Following and the creator of State of Affairs.
Hawley graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in political science in 1989. He worked for Legal Aid Society in New York City, dealing with cases involving child abuse and neglect.
He later moved to San Francisco and did computer programming work at law firms and worked as a paralegal.