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Elisabeth Robinson is an independent producer and screenwriter whose film credits include the award-winning films Braveheart and Last Orders. She is also the author of The True & Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a national and New York Times bestseller.
In New York, Robinson worked as a film executive for United Artists, Sundance, and the Lee Rich Company at Warner Bros, before moving to Los Angeles to accept the post of Vice-President at MGM. There she worked on such films as The Lover, Getting Even with Dad, and Goldeneye. Robinson left MGM to oversee development and production at The Ladd Company at Paramount Pictures. The company produced two Brady Bunch films and the five-Oscar-winner Braveheart. In 1998, she left Los Angeles to write and produce films independently.
Since 2005, MORE magazine has commissioned Robinson to write adventure travel stories, including a motorcycle trip down the Ho Chi Minh trail; elephant riding in southern India; hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc; boating in Venice, and fly-fishing in Montana. She lives in New York City.
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Where did your idea for the book originate?
My sister changed my life, and I felt compelled to tell the story of how she
did that. I'd always been interested in questions of faith--how can you believe
there is meaning in life, or in God when terrible things happen to people? Her
defiant optimism, even in the face of lousy odds, was amazing to me, because I
had always been pretty cynical and pessimistic, and that became the structure
within which I began to write.
Since the novel is based on the true story of what happened to you and
your sister, why not write a memoir, why write a novel?
I fictionalized the story because I have been a screenwriter for some time,
and after the restrictiveness of writing screenplays, I wanted to be free to
discover things and let the story lead me. So, for example, while I did work on
a script of Don Quixote, it never got made. But the themes in Quixote echo what
I wanted to write about, and it has been a historically impossible movie to get
made in Hollywood. So I decided to make it the one the protagonist is trying to
produce. I also chose to write a novel so that I could write things the way I
would like them to have been--there was some wish fulfillment, like the nasty
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