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Sara Davidson (born 1943)[1] is a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.[2] She is the author of the best-selling Loose Change.[3] It was adapted as a television mini-series. In addition, she has written other series and served as producer.

Sara Davidson
Born	1943 (age 78–79)[1] United States
Occupation	Novelist, journalist,[2] producer
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley[2]
Notable works	Loose Change[3]
Website
saradavidson.com

Early life and education

Davidson grew up in California and graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1960.[4] She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.[2] She also attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and started her writing career as a journalist.

Journalist

Davidson's first job was as a reporter with the Boston Globe.[2] She has also written for magazines including The Atlantic Monthly,[5] Esquire.[5] Harper's Magazine,[1][5][6] Life,[5] McCall's,[5] Ms.,[5] The New York Times Magazine,[5] Newsweek,[6][7] O, The Oprah Magazine,[6][8] Ramparts[5] and Rolling Stone.[5]

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.[9]

In the 1990s she had an affair with "real-life cowboy" Richard Goff. Their relationship inspired her largely autobiographical novel Cowboy(1999).[10]

Books

• 1977 Loose Change: three women of the sixties,[11][12] This was adapted as a television mini-series airing in 1978.[13]
• 1980 Real Property[11][14]
• 1984 Friends of the Opposite Sex, ISBN 0-385-13381-2[11][15]
• 1986 Rock Hudson: his Story, written with Rock Hudson, ISBN 0-688-06472-8[11][16]
• 1999 Cowboy, ISBN 0-06-019326-3[11][17]
• 2007 Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?, ISBN 978-0-345-47808-5[18][19][20]
• 2012 Joan: Forty Years of Life, Loss, and Friendship with Joan Didion, ISBN 978-1-61452-016-0
• 2014. The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery.

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),[21] and HeartBeat (1988).[22] She was the co-executive producer for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.[23]

References

External links

• Official website
• Sara Davidson at IMDb
• An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights from Life magazine, by Sara Davidson (1969)

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