Robin Green (born July 31, 1945) is an American writer and producer. She was a writer and executive producer on the HBO series ''

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'' and was the co-creator and executive producer of the CBS series '' Blue Bloods''. In the 1970s, Green was a writer for ''

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''.

Biography

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native, Robin Green earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American literature from Pembroke College in Brown University, and a

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from the

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at the University of Iowa. Green is Jewish. In 1968, Green worked as

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' secretary-receptionist and "Gal Friday" for editor-in-chief

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. After moving on from Marvel she spent time as a magazine journalist in such publications as ''

''. Upon entering the television industry as a writer, Green wrote and produced for such series as ''

'', '' Northern Exposure'', '' A Year in the Life'' and '' Almost Grown'', and wrote the Showtime TV movie ''Critical Choices''. In 2010, Green worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of police drama '' Southland''. In August 2018 Little Brown and Company published Green's memoir, '' The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone''. Green is married to ''Sopranos'' co-writer Mitchell Burgess. Together, they created the CBS

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'' Blue Bloods'', which premiered in 2010.

Works

Awards

Green won an

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for her work on the CBS series ''Northern Exposure''. She was awarded Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of ''The Sopranos'' in

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

and 2003, as well as an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in

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. In addition, she won two

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s and a

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for the series.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Robin American television producers American women television producers American television writers Pembroke College in Brown University alumni Brown University alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Living people American women television writers Writers Guild of America Award winners Place of birth missing (living people) Primetime Emmy Award winners American showrunners 21st-century American women 1945 births