About
Louis Greenstein is the author of the novels The Song of Life (Sunbury Press, 2021) and Mr. Boardwalk (New Door Books, 2014). He was the co-writer (with Kate Ferber) of One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro, a one-woman cabaret that had critically acclaimed productions at the New York Musical Festival, A.R.T.'s Oberon Theater in Boston, Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre in New York, and in music venues and theaters in Philadelphia, Provincetown, Buffalo, Wilmington, and elsewhere.
For television, Louis has written for Nickelodeon's EMMY-winning show Rugrats. A recipient of a Sunny Award for fiction and a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts playwriting fellowship, three of his one-act plays were commissioned by Theatre Ariel, published by Dramatic Publishing, and produced many times in the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-author of With Albert Einstein, a one-man show starring the late Don Auspitz that was produced by the Walnut Street Theater, Princeton University, and the Franklin Institute.
Louis is also a freelance magazine writer whose articles have appeared in publications including Philadelphia Magazine, the Satirist, Rotary Magazine, Wharton Magazine, the University of Miami Medicine Magazine, Penn Nursing, and the Ring Magazine, the Bible of Boxing. A Philadelphia native, he currently lives at the Jersey shore.
Featured Work
The Song of Life
2. The Song of Life is a comedy about suffering and forgiveness. When 24-year-old Margaret Holly gets hit on the head with a Hindu scripture known as the Bhagavad Gita, she is propelled on a seven-year spiritual odyssey. During this time, she grieves a heartbreaking loss, forgives those who abused her, masters the practice of meditation, and comes to better understand the nature of the universe. Her journey introduces her to the inscrutabilities of brain science, the promise of Big Data, and—thanks to her charming, reckless cousin Roy—the colorfully brutal world of professional boxing. Elliott Fenwick is a college professor, an expert in predictive analytics, and a neurotic with lagging social skills who embarks on his own quirky odyssey and—despite himself—changes his and Margaret’s lives forever. Meanwhile, far away and long ago, Arjuna—legendary warrior and hero of the Bhagavad Gita—enjoys his first day off in years. It’s the eve of his legendary chariot ride with Krishna, the dialogue of which comprises the Bhagavad Gita’s verses. At the end of the novel, Margaret's and Arjuna's worlds collide in an unexpected twist.
