Spencer Compton was raised in New York City.  He spent the summer of 1969 working as a bartender at London’s Chelsea Drugstore where he watched the Apollo Moon landing alongside cheering patrons. After graduating from NYU Film School, he made independent feature films and music videos and was a screenwriter on the cult classic Cocaine Cowboys starring Andy Warhol and Jack Palance. He then went to law school and became a real estate attorney. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.