Randolph Pitts graduated as a National Merit Scholar from Washington-Lee High School and after that graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California Berkeley with degrees in Social Psychology and Near Eastern Studies (Ancient) with a minor in Greek (ancient). He was a Regents Graduate Fellow in Near Eastern Studies and concurrently organized seminars on ancient Coptic literature at the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. Subsequently he studied Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law at UCLA which declined to award him a degree. He also studied law at California State University Los Angeles. He did advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationship\s dynamics. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of philosophy. He was also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and of the American Composers Forum. He served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chapman University. As its CEO Randolph Pitts turned a small, new film production company, Lumière Films, Inc., into the most successful independent producer/financier in Hollywood, best known for the multi-award winning film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar as Best Actor, “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson (winner of the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival) and “Touch” featuring Christopher Walken and Gina Gershon and directed by Paul Schrader. Was a widely respected international motion picture producer and production company executive. He was the founder, writer and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. His music compositions include a concerto for string orchestra, a string sextet, a piano sonata; a piano concerto; “Der Schatten Eines Traumes” for vocal soloists and large orchestra based on the writings of Karoline von Günderrode, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Christoph Friedrich Heinle and Ingeborg Bachmann; and Das Buch der Blauen Rose for three sopranos, chorus, speaker, orchestra, organ, tape and electronicsIn addition to THE UGLY PERSON’S GUIDE TO HOW TO GET LAID Randolph Pitts is the author of three novels and a book of poetry and other writings entitled EYES OF A DREAMER. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is the first volume of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. And also… with women and men falling in love. Along the way we travel to India and discover the Siddhis (Sanskrit: सिद्धि siddhi; fulfillment, accomplishment), which are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through the practices of Tantra. Also into this world enters the contemporary practice of Voudou in Brooklyn, New York.TRUST is the second of Randolph Pitts tetralogy of novels. It introduces a character, a national television personality whose tag line is “You’ve gota’ trust me on this one,” who is revealed to have psychic powers. We discover that others are similarly “time-free”, a phenomenon which comes in useful in foiling a diabolical plot by the ultimate villain, deranged but brilliant scientist Dr. Werner Ganzfeld, “The Brain In The Plastic Bubblez”, whom we first encountered at a “Swinger’s Resort” in BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPE.STARVE A FEVER (in two volumes) is third of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. A Brooklyn, NY Police Detective finds himself on the trail of Nazi terrorists while a group of dedicated women in powerful (and not so powerful( places endeavor to save the planet from disaster. Meanwhile mysterious images from a lost culture wash ashore in many places. They may convey the secret…
