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Name: Dylan Harvey
Type: Director
IMDB: 9848900
Short biography: Kyle Dylan Harvey (born April 23, 1989, age 36) is an American author, freelance journalist and public speaker best know for his critically acclaimed series of novels and brutish style of journalism. He's a well-known, subject-matter-expert of historical literature, and attended the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Media. Beginning in 2018, the "Nomad" series highlighted a substantial shift in literature, reintroducing "Gonzo" journalism to the public eye. Harvey is also a past contributor to 'The Rolling Stone' and has written songs featured on several platinum albums. His substantial work in journalism has spanned from sports and music to human interest and politics. He has often been critical of Donald Trump and other "radical" Republicans politically, although he remains a well-respected member of the Republican Party and conservative movement. His matter-of-fact style of writing and common-sense political commentary has earned him both praise and criticism. Within the film community, Harvey is best known for his work on Nomad's film adaption, "Signed, Nomad", a failed multimillion dollar film project that was terminated after the SARS-Covid-19 epidemic struck in 2020. In his early life, Harvey was born to an English and Italian Catholic family in Southern California. After leaving San Bernardino in his early infancy, Harvey's family settled in Imperial, Missouri, a suburban neighborhood south of St. Louis. He is the son of a network systems analyst for Xerox and a school principal. He spent years working on a Christmas Tree farm in his youth, often scraping together money to buy paper to write on. He often credits his mother, an educator, with teaching him to write well from an early age. As well, Harvey is the father of three children; Aubrey, Lilly, and Liam Harvey. After a hard later youth which saw many run-ins with law enforcement over petty crimes like drunkenness and fighting, Harvey joined the United States Marine Corps in 2007. "I saw the camaraderie that the military felt as a kid and it influenced me. The airmen he served with were my dad's second family, as the Marines were to me. I needed the structure and if I hadn't joined the Marine Corps, even for the short time I was in, I'd be dead or in prison. I was bored because nobody and nothing ever challenged me. I didn't even graduate high school until after my discharge in 2008, believe it or not. Talk about culture shock, having to return to a high school classroom after living that lifestyle." From his early-to-mid 20's, Harvey worked as a sales representative for "anything you could imagine, from jewelry to cell phones to cars, I even once sold vacuum cleaners door to door. Eighty-six jobs in seven years, most of the time I was doing a few things at once, sometimes for competing products. I was damn good at it too, whatever I was selling was the best thing you could buy that day." Harvey often has said that this period of time was the best of his life. Even after becoming a multimillionaire before thirty, Harvey has stated that he'd "gladly give away every nickel to return to (his) youth, living in the back of a minivan, simply being happy to live another day." After the birth of his two daughters, just sixteen months apart, Harvey moved to Illinois. "I was running from something. From what? I can't tell you. I was married to my ex-wife by then, and the last few years had been a stressful blur with the mother of the two girls. She was pregnant at the time and I'd promised her one last attempt at a boy. Yet, still, I was Peter Pan, refusing to grow up until it was too late and, then one day reality crashed down onto me. It forced me to put a lot of things into perspective." On the night of March 6-7, 2016, the mother of Harvey's two girls left Aubrey and Lilly alone with her paramour, William "Allen" Harris. Harris was coming down off a high of synthetic heroin, mixing the drug with NyQuil while left alone with the children. Aubrey would cry while she was getting a bath and her mother's paramour snapped, killing Aubrey by drowning her in a bathtub. Harris was later sentenced to twenty-six years in prison for his crimes. "It was a wake up call. All these things I'd been doing over the last few years, they weren't me, they weren't right. I wasn't living right. When Aubrey passed, I was just stunned in disbelief like everyone else. I felt like it was my karma for the way I'd treated people for years and I was mad at God for taking it out on her. Then I just looked around and thought "this is really fucked up," and I wondered if I could change it. When Aubrey was born, I remember being apprehensive about bringing a child into this messed up place. Seeing this unfold, it only confirmed what I already felt. You don't ever expect it to be your child on the news." Concurrently, unable to deal with the stress, Harvey's wife left. "We split. I could sit and tell the story, but we don't have that kind of time. I was homeless and sleeping in a vehicle for a few months, I was driving for a rideshare company. I was miserable and suicidal and then one day I just decided that I was done being me. I left that man behind and dedicated myself to living; the good, the bad, the ugly, it didn't matter. I had nothing left to lose, so I gave myself to life and it was the greatest thing I ever did for me. It changed me, at my core. It brought me back to these very American, down-home values of right and wrong, good and evil. It was sweet tea from a Kerr jar on the back porch again, the simpler things in life, and I found my peace with the world in returning to those values I was raised on. I began to look at everything I thought I knew about life differently, and I sought people who weren't like me. I had to learn to think differently. I couldn't go back and I couldn't change what'd happened, so I moved forward and decided to be a better person. That's really what I'm trying to show the world with "Nomad." There's no more excuses. Just be a good person. It's not hard." Harvey often speaks to these values. Faith, Family, and Military are common themes in his writing.