Earl Hamner Jr.

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Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (born on July 10, 1923 in Schuyler, Virginia) is an American television writer and producer, best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on long-running shows such as The Waltons (which was about Hamner's own family) and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he is best known for the novel Spencer's Mountain, which was inspired by his childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons.

He is also sometimes credited as Earl Hamner.

He has a collection of 50 Bonsai trees.

He based the cantankerous Walton's family grandparents in the popular television series on his own maternal Italian-American grandparents, Ora Lee and A. Gianniny, an anglicized version of the Italian name "Giannini".

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