Odie Hawkins

Odie Hawkins (born July 7, 1937) co=wrote the teleplay for the Sanford and Son episode titled "The Big Party" in Season 2 of the series. Odie is a native of Chicago, Illinois, where he attended Wilson Junior College. He and his wife reside in Compton, California.

Career
Odie has been given the title, “The Underground Master”, by a loyal constituency who have followed his career through his twenty four novels, short story collections, essays, television scripts, radio and film scripts. He takes pride in being the originator of the Pan-African Occult genre, as exemplified by “The Snake” and “Shackles Across Time”. He was one of the original members of the famed Watts Writers Workshop, established by Budd Schulberg,