Ethlie Ann Vare (Born March 8, 1953) is a journalist and screenwriter best known for her work on television shows including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, and Silk Stalkings, along with books including Mothers of Invention: Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable Ideas, and Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs. Ms. Vare has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Women for more than two decades[1]. She’s been a distinguished visiting lecturer at prestigious schools like George Mason University, Brigham Young University, and West Point and other institutions[2]. She’s won a Maggie Award for her magazine work, an American Library Award and a Public Library Award for her non-fiction book, and a Prism Commendation for one of her television scripts[3].
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Ethlie was born in Montreal, Canada and grew up in Greenwich Village, New York. She attended Bronx High School of Science where she was a National Merit Scholar, then moved to England and attended Bedales School graduating at age 16. She attended the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with a bachelor's degree in World Literature at age 19. She was convicted of possession of drugs with intent to sell and was sent to California Institute for Women in Frontera, Calif[4].
After completing her prison sentence, she moved to Nevada City, California and got a job at the local newspaper The Mountain Messenger in 1978. Her weekly pop music column, Rock On was soon picked up for national syndication and led to higher profile writing gigs, including concert reviews for Billboard Magazine. The influx of work led her to Los Angeles, California in 1983, where she became the editor of ROCK magazine, reviewer for the Hollywood Reporter, Daily Variety, and contributor to Elle magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal among others.
Her first teleplay was a music-themed freelance episode of the action-adventure series, Renegade. She soon became a staff writer for Renegade, Silk Stalkings, Players, and Earth: Final Conflict, then Gene Roddenberry’s AndromedaAdventure Inc., and The Hallmark Mysteries: Jane Doe. Her made-for-television movie, Something Beneath, won a Platinum Remy Award and an episode of CSI:Crime Scene Investigation[5]. Soon afterward, she wrote an episode about women in prison (“XX”) which was proposed for an Emmy Award nomination in 2004.
Ethlie Ann Vare's first book was published under a pseudonym when she was 17 years old. "It was a virgin's idea of what pornography sounds like," she later remarked. Her first legitimate release was the pop-star biography Everything You Wanted to Know About. . . Stevie Nicks, co-written with reporter Ed Ochs when Vare was a talent correspondent at Billboard magazine. Now a collector's item, the paperback sells at online auctions for $200 and up. In 1986 Vare wrote another musical biography: Ozzy Osbourne, for the Ballantine Books series Monsters of Metal[6].
Inspired by a ROCK magazine article about the Monkees (band member Michael Nesmith's mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, invented Liquid Paper), ROCK editors Vare and Greg Ptacek co-wrote the "pop history" Mothers of Invention: Forgotten Women and their Unforgettable Ideas in 1988, followed by 1993's Women Inventors and Their Discoveries, geared for a middle-school readership[7]. Vare later wrote a book for grade-school readers, Adventurous Spirit: A Story about Ellen Swallow Richards, about America's first female professional chemist. In 2001, Vare and Ptacek reunited for the sequel Patently Female.
Vare has written or edited biographies of pop culture figures ranging from Frank Sinatra to Tom Cruise, Judy Garland to Barbra Streisand. Her only novel to date is The Broken Places, co-written with Daniel Morris and set in the universe of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
Ethlie Ann Vare's most recent release is also her most autobiographical, Love Addict: Sex, Romance and Other Dangerous Drugs (HCI Books, September 1, 2011)[8], which developed out of her blog Affection Deficit Disorder. Love Addict is her eleventh published book, the first on the subject of addiction, something she has experienced firsthand. “It is,” she says, “a funny book about a serious subject.” [9].
Nonfiction:
(With Ed Ochs) Stevie Nicks (also known as Everything You Want to Know about Stevie Nicks), Ballantine, 1985.
(As Lee Riley) Tom Cruise, Pinnacle, 1985.
Ozzy Osbourne, Ballantine, 1986.
(With Mary Toledo) Harrison Ford, St. Martin's Press, 1988.
(With Greg Ptacek) Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb; Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable Ideas, Morrow, 1988.
(As Lee Riley) Patrick Duffy, St. Martin's Press, 1988.
(As Lee Riley) The Sheens, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Adventurous Spirit: A Story about Ellen Swallow Richards, illustrated by Jennifer Hagerman, CarolRhoda Books, 1992.
(With Ptacek) Women Inventors and Their Discoveries, Oliver Press, 1993.
Legend: Frank Sinatra and the American Dream, Boulevard, 1995.
(Editor) Diva: Barbra Streisand and the Making of a Superstar, Berkley Publishing, 1996.
(Editor with Michael Musto) Rainbow: A Star-Studded Tribute to Judy Garland, Berkley Publishing, 1998.
(With Ptacek) Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners, Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, some sources cite title as Patently Female: More Women Inventors and Discoveries.
Television
"When She Was Bad," Silk Stalkings, USA Network, 1996.
Renegade, USA Network and syndicated, multiple episodes, 1996-97.
"The Babysitter," Silk Stalkings, USA Network, 1997.
"I Love the Nightlife," Silk Stalkings, USA Network, 1997.
"In Concert," Players, NBC, 1997.
"Rashocon," Players, NBC, 1997.
"The Cloister," Earth: Final Conflict (also known as EFC, Gene Roddenberry's "Battleground Earth," Gene Roddenberry's "Earth: Final Conflict," Invasion planete Terre, and Mission Erde: Sie sind unter uns), syndicated, 1999.
"Deja Vu," Earth: Final Conflict (also known as EFC, Gene Roddenberry's "Battleground Earth," Gene Roddenberry's "Earth: Final Conflict," Invasion planete Terre, and Mission Erde: Sie sind unter uns), syndicated, 1999.
(Author of story) "Ransom of Red Val," V.I.P. (also known as V.I.P.—Die Bodyguards), syndicated, 1999.
"The Golden Phoenix," BeastMaster (also known as BeastMaster—Herr der Wildnis, BeastMaster, le dernier des survivants, and O arhontas ton zoon), syndicated, 2000.
"Subterfuge," Earth: Final Conflict (also known as EFC, Gene Roddenberry's "Battleground Earth," Gene Roddenberry's "Earth: Final Conflict," Invasion planete Terre, and Mission Erde: Sie sind unter uns), syndicated, 2000.
Andromeda (also known as Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda"), syndicated, multiple episodes, 2000-2002.
"Bride of the Sun," Adventure Inc. (also known as Aventure et associes), syndicated, 2002.
"Village of the Lost," Adventure Inc. (also known as Aventure et associes), syndicated, 2002.
"Maternal Mirrors," Strong Medicine, Lifetime, 2003.
"The Search for Arthur," Adventure Inc. (also known as Aventure et associes), syndicated, 2003.
"XX," CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (also known as C.S.I., CSI, CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: Weekends, and Les experts), CBS, 2004.[10]
Movies:
Jane Doe: The Wrong Face, The Hallmark Channel, 2005.
Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall, The Hallmark Channel, 2006.
Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well, The Hallmark Channel, 2006.
Black Swarm (also known as Night of the Drones), Sci-Fi Channel, 2007.
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind, The Hallmark Channel, 2007.
Something Beneath, Sci-Fi Channel, 2007.
Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss, The Hallmark Channel, c. 2007.
Swamp Devil, Super Channel (Canada) and Sci-Fi Channel, 2008.[11]
Novels:
(With Daniel Morris) The Broken Places (novel related to the television series Andromeda; novel also known as Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda": The Broken Places), St. Martin's Press, c. 2004.[12]