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Lindsay Maracotta is an American author of eleven novels, including the mass market bestsellers Everything We Wanted, published by Random House, and The Dead Hollywood Moms Society, published by William Morrow. She has served as a producer on several films, including a Hallmark Channel movie based on her Dead Hollywood mystery series entitled Hollywood Mom's Mystery, starring Justine Bateman and Andrew McCarthy. She also wrote for the Ace Award-winning HBO series The Hitchhiker and has written scripts for Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros. and for such stars as Goldie Hawn and Jessica Lange. Previous to this, she was a freelance writer, contributing articles to numerous publications including Harper’s, Playboy, The Los Angeles Times, and Vogue. Her newest book, The Producer's Daughter (written as Lindsay Marcott) was published in 2015.
In 2016, Maracotta began teaching writing at UCLA.
A native of Manhattan and a graduate of Smith College, Maracotta lives with her husband, a film producer, in the Hollywood Hills.
Bibliography
- The Sad Eyed Ladies (1978)
- Angel Dust (1979)
- Caribe (1980)
- Hide & Seek (1982)
- Everything We Wanted (1984)
- The Dead Hollywood Moms Society (1996)
- The Dead Celeb (1997)
- Playing Dead (1998)
- To Catch a Husband (as Lindsay Graves) (2006)
- To Keep a Husband (as Lindsay Graves) (2007)
- The Producer's Daughter (as Lindsay Marcott) (2015)
The Dead Hollywood Moms Society and its two sequels were reprinted in 2014 as the "Dead is the New Fabulous Series" and were retitled Fabulously Dead, Dazzle Me Dead, and Adorably Dead, respectively.
References
- "EVERYTHING WE WANTED by Lindsay Maracotta". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "Fiction Book Review: The Dead Hollywood Moms Society by Lindsay Maracotta". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "The Hollywood Mom's Mystery (TV Movie 2004)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "An Interview with New Instructor Lindsay Maracotta | Writers' Program". writers.uclaextension.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "THE SAD-EYED LADIES by Lindsay Maracotta". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "THE DEAD HOLLYWOOD MOMS SOCIETY by Lindsay Maracotta". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "Fiction Book Review: The Dead Celeb: A Lucy Freers Mystery by Lindsay Maracotta". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "Fiction Book Review: Playing Dead: A Hollywood Mystery by Lindsay Maracotta". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "Fiction Book Review: To Catch a Husband by Lindsay Graves". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- "Fiction Book Review: The Producer's Daughter by Lindsay Marcott". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
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Categories:- 1948 births
- Living people
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women film producers
- Film producers from New York (state)
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- Writers from Manhattan
- Novelists from New York City
- American women screenwriters
- Smith College alumni
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Screenwriters from California