Nancy Hersage Biography
Nancy (Gilsenan) Hersage is the author of 18 published stage plays, including
adaptations of Judith Guest's Ordinary People and John Knowles's A Separate
Peace. She is the winner of six national American theater awards and her work
has been produced in the US, England, Canada and Africa. She currently lives and
works in Los Angeles writing movies for film and network television with such
companies as Hearst Entertainment and Merv Griffin Entertainment. With writer
Shirley Tallman, she is also the author of the political satire Please Stand
By -- Your Mother's Missing. Her new suspense novel, Tribunal, is
based on two years of research, and indirectly pleads for the enforcement of
international human rights law with regard to trafficking in women. It was
inspired by a two-minute story told by a young Filipino woman at the UN
Conference on Women in Beijing.
This biography was last updated on 12/04/2010.
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