Sara Davidson (born 1943) is an American

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, novelist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the best-selling ''

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'' It was adapted as a television mini-series. In addition, she has written other series and served as producer.

Early life and education

Davidson grew up in California and graduated from

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in 1960. She graduated from the

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. She also attended the

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and started her writing career as a journalist.

Journalist

Davidson's first job was as a reporter with the ''

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''. She has also written for magazines including ''

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Personal

In 1968, she was briefly married to Jonathan Schwartz, a popular-music radio deejay in New York City. She later married again, to a Los Angeles businessman. They had a son and a daughter together, but were divorced. In the 1990s she had an affair with "real-life cowboy" Richard Goff. Their relationship inspired her largely autobiographical novel ''Cowboy''(1999).

Books

*1977 '' Loose Change: three women of the sixties'', This was adapted as a television mini-series airing in 1978. *1980 ''Real Property'' *1984 ''Friends of the Opposite Sex'', *1986 ''Rock Hudson: his Story'', written with

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, *1999 ''Cowboy'', *2007 ''Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?'', *2012 ''Joan: Forty Years of Life, Loss, and Friendship with Joan Didion'', *2014 ''The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery.'' *2023 ''The Didion Files: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion''

Television

Davidson's novel ''Loose Change'' (1977) was adapted for a mini-series. In addition, she wrote and produced a number of television series. She created the series ''Jack and Mike'' (1986), and '' HeartBeat'' (1988). She was the co-executive producer for '' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman''.

References

External links

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An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights
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