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Naomi Foner Biography ((?)-)

Born in New York, NY; married Stephen Gyllenhaal (a film director); children:two. Career: Screenwriter and producer. Served as media director of Eugene McCarthy's campaign for president, 1968; Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), production assistant and researcher on staff of Sesame Street, beginning 1968; creator and co-producer of television series,The Best of Families. Awards, Honors: Academy Award nomination for best originalscreenplay, Golden Globe Award for best screenplay, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, PEN West Screenplay Award, all 1989, for Running on Empty. Addresses: Home: Los Angeles, CA.; Agent: c/o Stephen Gyllenhaal, 32Ocean View Farm Rd., Chilmark, MA 02535.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Screenwriter, producer

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Work
• Producer
• A Dangerous Woman, Gramercy Pictures, 1993
• Losing Isaiah, Paramount, 1995
• Executive producer, Homegrown, Columbia TriStar, 1998
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Violets Are Blue, Columbia, 1986
• Running on Empty, Warner Bros., 1988
• A Dangerous Woman (based on a novel by Mary McGarry Morris), Gramercy Pictures, 1993
• Losing Isaiah (based on a novel by Seth Margolis), Paramount, 1995
• Also author of the teleplay "Blackout," for the PBS series, Visions.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• Cosmopolitan, November 1990, pp. 294-97.
• Entertainment Weekly, December 3, 1993, pp. 47, 50.
• Nation, October 31, 1988, p. 434.
• New Republic, October 10, 1988, pp. 26-27.
• New Statesman and Society, May 20, 1994, pp. 32, 34.
• New York, September 26, 1988, pp. 110, 114, 116; April 3, 1995, p.59.
• New Yorker, December 13, 1993, p. 125.
• Time, April 14, 1986, p. 104.*