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"All actors have identity problems..."
I remember Fawn Brodie, the only female history professor I ever had at UCLA, giving a lecture about John Wilkes Booth just days after the phone call with Grant Tinker about my writing an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I don't recall Mary Surratt being mentioned in that lecture, but I confess I may have been focusing more on Mary Richards at the time. Soon Fawn Brodie's THOMAS JEFFERSON: AN INTIMATE HISTORY would reveal Sally Hemings to the world. I feel sure that this brilliant historian and her inspired teaching planted the seed in 1975 for my first novel, THE WOMAN WHO LOVED JOHN WILKES BOOTH, published three, short years later.
I remember Fawn Brodie, the only female history professor I ever had at UCLA, giving a lecture about John Wilkes Booth just days after the phone call with Grant Tinker about my writing an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I don't recall Mary Surratt being mentioned in that lecture, but I confess I may have been focusing more on Mary Richards at the time. Soon Fawn Brodie's THOMAS JEFFERSON: AN INTIMATE HISTORY would reveal Sally Hemings to the world. I feel sure that this brilliant historian and her inspired teaching planted the seed in 1975 for my first novel, THE WOMAN WHO LOVED JOHN WILKES BOOTH, published three, short years later.
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I swerved from sitcom to historical fiction. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 5th Season 1975 to THE WOMAN WHO LOVED JOHN WILKES BOOTH (GP Putnam 1978)
Mary Richards to Mary Surratt. What a swerve.
Mary Richards to Mary Surratt. What a swerve.
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