Award-winning novelist and screenwriter, Gabrielle Burton's novel, Heartbreak Hotel, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, was awarded the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer's Award, and the Maxwell Perkins Prize for exceptional writing. It was reprinted by the prestigious Dalkey Archive Press, which selects a few books a year to keep in print in perpetuity. She wrote the non-fiction book, I'm Running Away From Home But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street, a primer on the Women's Movement. Her articles, essays, and reviews appear in national publications including the Washington Post, Family Circle, Ms. Magazine, and The New York Times.

She received the Mary Pickford Prize from the American Film Institute (where she received an MFA in Screenwriting). She won the Austin Film Festival's top prize for screenwriting the same weekend she was selected as one of only eleven international writers to attend the Equinoxe Screenwriting Conference in Bordeaux, France. She was named a Nicholl Screenwriting Fellow by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has been the recipient of Arts Council grants and was selected to participate in the Independent Feature Project (IFP) Screenwriting Lab. Her screenplay, Manna From Heaven, was chosen as a critics pick by the Washington Post and called "Capra-esque. Charming, charming, charming" by NPR. After national theatrical distribution, em>Manna From Heaven was released on DVD by MGM/Sony.

Her forthcoming books are: Searching For Tamsen Donner , a memoir published by University of Nebraska Press, and Impatient With Desire, a novel published by Hyperion/Voice. She was a delegate for Shirley Chisholm's run for President and was an integral member of peace and equal rights groups, and continues to be politically passionate. She has worked as a public speaker, as well as judge for literary prizes. She has been a Member of the Ossabaw Island Project, a Yaddo fellow, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and the Bernard De Voto Fellow in Non Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. She is a member of The American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel.

Blog Entries by Gabrielle Burton

Report Card for Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet) Reading: I for Incomplete

3 Comments | Posted February 9, 2009 | 02:23 PM (EST)


When a personal trainer at Gold's Gym in Venice told me that The Reader was the best movie he had ever seen, and a research psychologist in Colorado emailed me the same thing the next day, I raced to the theatre.

The Reader, nominated for five Academy Awards, is about...

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Inauguration Second Time Around--Sort of

2 Comments | Posted January 24, 2009 | 11:44 AM (EST)


Our blood is thin from California living, and my husband, Roger, had a broken arm, but we braved the cold and the crowds and went to the Inauguration. We stood on the mall with two million other joyful people and were glad we didn't need a restroom quickly.
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I Booed Bush

105 Comments | Posted January 23, 2009 | 04:56 PM (EST)


I booed Bush. I stood on the Mall on Inauguration Day in a crowd of two million people and, without a moment's hesitation, booed the forty third president of the United States. That was a first for me.

I was taught that booing was rude, or as Chris Matthews said,...

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