Sara Davidson

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Sara Davidson (b. 1943) is a journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and radio host. She is the author of best-selling books, including Loose Change, about three women growing up in the 1960s.

[edit] Journalism

Davidson grew up in California and graduated from UC Berkeley and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Davidson's first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national correspondent, covering everything from the election campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon to the Woodstock Festival and the student strike at Columbia University. Later, she wrote for magazines including Harpers, Esquire, The Atlantic, New York Times and Rolling Stone.

A pioneering "literary journalist," Davidson combines the techniques of fiction with rigorous reporting to bring real events and people to life. Her work is collected in the textbook The Literary Journalists by Norman Sims.

Davidson is a close friend of Joan Didion and has written about her in several articles and essays.

[edit] Books

Her books include Friends of the Opposite Sex, a novel about a man and woman who are best friends and yearn for the perfect romantic partner; Rock Hudson: His Story, the authorized biography of movie idol Rock Hudson, written after he announced he had AIDS; and Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? (2007).

Reviewing Davidson's Cowboy: A Novel, a fictionalized account of a relationship between a cowboy and a high-powered writer, the New York Times's Maureen Dowd said, "What does a woman want? Rodeo and Juliet."

Her book Loose Change, the story of the Sixties told through the lives of three young women who meet at Berkeley, was an international bestseller, and was turned into a TV miniseries.

[edit] Television

Davidson created two dramatic series, Jack and Mike and Heart Beat, and has served as co-executive producer of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman starring Jane Seymour. In 1994, she was nominated for a Golden Globe.