Jonathan Tropper

When I stepped into the living room of Jonathan Tropper’s large house in the unpretentious Westchester suburb of New Rochelle, I had a nervous pause: Had I caught him at a bad moment? It looked like he had just moved in, and most of his furniture hadn’t yet arrived. The walls were bare, and there was little in the room aside from a sofa, a piano and a pile of books.

For the uninitiated, reading a Jonathan Tropper is akin to taking a guided tour through the modern male psyche. Over the course of six seriocomic novels involving health hazards, career crossroads and relationship crises, including the highly-acclaimed This Is Where I Leave You and the just-released One Last Thing Before I Go, the author has cornered the market on the sensitive adult man

Jonathan Tropper, co-creator of Cinemax breakout drama Banshee, has signed an overall deal with Cinemax and sibling HBO. Under the pact, Tropper will continue to executive produce Banshee — Cinemax’s first homegrown hit from its current foray into primetime drama programming — which is in production on its fourth season.