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Why We Write
Personal Statements and Photographic Portraits of 25 Top Screenwriters
Lorian Tamara Elbert, 233 pages, 9x8, photos, 1-879505-45-2, $22.95 paper

“A feast for the eyes, a feast for the soul.  Not for writers alone, but for all people
who love creative expression.”
— Richard Walter, author of Screenwriting and The Whole Picture,
 
Chairman of UCLA’s Film and Television Writing Program

“Ms. Elbert has a rare ability to capture her subject’ essences without resorting to props or costumes.  This authentic, almost vulnerable, quality makes her images very compelling.  Her portraits and these writers’ personal statements are a powerful combination.”
—Ann E. Gray, Publisher, Balcony Press

 
   
 

The screenwriters who appear in this unique collection of thought-provoking essays and photographic portraits offer their musings—some intimate, some philosophical—about why they write, who inspires them, and how they cope with the motion picture industry’s unpredictable frustrations and pleasures.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
Jeff Arch (Sleepless in Seattle)
John Brancato and Michael Ferris (The Game)
John Briley (Gandhi)
Pen Densham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
Patrick S. Duncan
(Mr. Holland’s Opus)
Trey Ellis (The Tuskegee Airmen)
Michael Grais (Poltergeist)
James V. Hart (Contact)
Velina Hasu Houston (Hothouse Flowers)
Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal (Jewel of the Nile)
Dale Launer (Ruthless People)
Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou)
Angelo Pizzo (Hoosiers)
Gary Ross (Pleasantville)
Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society)
Ed Solomon (Men in Black)
Dana Stevens (City of Angels)
Joan Tewkesbury (Nashville)
Michael Tolkin (The Player)
Randall Wallace (Braveheart)
Daniel Waters (Heathers)

 

Lorain Tamara Elbert is a freelance journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in numerous newspapers and national magazines.