Biography
Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. He grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for short fiction and graduated with honours. He later earned a master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Jacobs began his career writing short stories before moving to California to work in film. His screenplay credits include Out to Sea (1997), Dinosaur (2000), Chocolat (2000), The Shipping News (2001), The Water Horse (2007) and Extraordinary Measures (2010), as well as additional material for Flushed Away (2006). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Chocolat and has served as president of the Writers Guild Foundation.
