Gabrielle Burton

Gabrielle Burton
Born (1939-02-21)February 21, 1939
Lansing, Michigan
Died September 3, 2015(2015-09-03) (aged 76)
Language English
Education Marygrove College
American Film Institute

Gabrielle Burton (born Gabrielle Diane Bridget Baker; August 21, 1939 – September 3, 2015) was an American feminist novelist and screenwriter.

Biography

She was born in Lansing, Michigan to Clifford and Helen (née Dailey) Baker. She attended Marygrove College and then the American Film Institute at age 56. She was awarded AFI’s Mary Pickford Prize for top screenplay.[1]

Her best-known novels were I’m Running Away From Home but I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women’s Liberation, Heartbreak Hotel, Impatient With Desire and Searching for Tamsen Donner. Burton was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in 2000.

In 2002, she wrote the screen play for Manna from Heaven.[2]

Upon her death, Gabrielle Burton was included in the Academy of Motion Pictures "In Memoriam" for the Oscars. [3]

Death

Gabrielle Baker Burton died of pancreatic cancer in Venice, California on September 3, 2015, aged 76.[2] When she died, she had been working on a book called Don't Sit Down Yet.

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