Esta Spalding
Esta Alice Spalding is an American author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2000 for Lost August.
Biography
Born in
and currently resides in Culver City, California.In 1997, Spalding relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she worked as an executive story editor and writer on CBC Television's prime-time drama Da Vinci's Inquest. She also worked as a writer and executive story editor on all three seasons of The Eleventh Hour, a prime-time drama about investigative journalists on CTV. Both series were highly critically acclaimed and repeatedly won Gemini awards for Best Series.
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Currently, Spalding is the showrunner on Showtime's On Becoming a God in Central Florida, and a writer and executive producer on Freeform's Party of Five. Her feature film The Last Letter from Your Lover (co-written with Nick Payne) based on the novel by Jojo Moyes will premiere on Netflix in July 2021. She recently published a children's book series that includes Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts, Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts, and Shout Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts.
Spalding and her mother Linda Spalding co-wrote a novel, Mere, which was published in 2001.
She is a contributing editor to the literary magazine Brick.
She has a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. from Stanford University.
Bibliography
- Shout Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts - 2019 ISBN 978-0735264519
- Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts - 2017 ISBN 978-0316298605
- Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts - 2016 ISBN 978-0-31629-858-2
- The Wife's Account - 2004 ISBN 978-0-88784-675-5
- Carrying Place - 1995
- Anchoress - 1997 ISBN 0-88784-591-6
- Lost August - 1999
- Lost Classics - 2000 and Linda Spalding)
- Mere - 2001 ISBN 0-00-225538-3
References
External links
- Esta Spalding at IMDb
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