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Sara Davidson (born 1943) is an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the best-selling Loose Change. 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 Los Angeles High School in 1960. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She also attended the 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. She has also written for magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Life, McCall's, Ms., The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, O, The Oprah Magazine, Ramparts and Rolling Stone.

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, ISBN 0-385-13381-2
• 1986 Rock Hudson: his Story, written with Rock Hudson, ISBN 0-688-06472-8
• 1999 Cowboy, ISBN 0-06-019326-3
• 2007 Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?, ISBN 978-0-345-47808-5
• 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.
• 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

1. ^ "Davidson, Sara (1943–)". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
2. ^ Wakefield, Dan (2007-02-25). "Finding a new way forward". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
3. ^ Harmetz, Aljean (1978-04-20). "Mini-series offer big gambles and rewards". The Ledger. Lakeland, Florida. p. 9B. Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2009-06-07. "Loose Change," based on a best-selling book by Sara Davidson . From The New York Times
4. "Classmates - Find your school, yearbooks and alumni online". secure.classmates.com. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
5. ^ Applegate, Edd (1996). Literary journalism: a biographical dictionary of writers and editors. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 58. ISBN 0-313-29949-8. Retrieved 2009-06-09. davidson sara journalism columbia.
6. ^ Davidson, Sara. "Biography". Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
7. Davidson, Sara (2008-09-22). "My Mother's Case of 'Pleasant Dementia'". Newsweek. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
8. Davidson, Sara (2003-03-01). "Murder in Westwood". O, The Oprah Magazine. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
9. Wadler, Joyce (2007-03-01). "A new chapter for Sara Davidson, a voice of the boomers". New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
10. Warrick, Pamela (1999-03-22). "Love on the Range". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
11. ^ "Sara Davidson Books". Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
12. Davidson, Sara (1977). Loose change by Sara Davidson. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385036306. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
13. ""Loose Change" (1978)". IMDb. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
14. Davidson, Sara (1980). Real property by Sara Davidson. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385155731. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
15. Davidson, Sara (1984). Friends of the opposite sex by Sara Davidson. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385133814. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
16. Hudson, Rock; Davidson, Sara (1986). Rock Hudson: his story. Morrow. ISBN 9780688064723. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
17. Davidson, Sara (1999). Cowboy by Sara Davidson. Cliff Street Books. ISBN 9780060193263. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
18. "Sara Davidson LEAP!". Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
19. Davidson, Sara (2007). Leap! by Sara Davidson. Random House. ISBN 9780345478085. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
20. Wadler, Joyce (March 1, 2007). "Writing Her Own Sequel". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
21. "Jack and Mike". Television. The New York Times. 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
22. "HeartBeat". Television. The New York Times. 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
23. "Sara Davidson Radio and television". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2009-06-07.

External links

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

• 1943 births
• Living people
• American women journalists
• 20th-century American novelists
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• 21st-century American novelists
• 20th-century American biographers
• American women biographers
• 21st-century American biographers
• American women screenwriters
• American women novelists
• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers