SUZANNE O’MALLEY is the author of “ARE YOU THERE ALONE?:” The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates. The author’s discovery of false testimony during the Yates trial resulted in reversal of the verdict of Yates’ conviction. O'Malley is the only journalist to have communications with Andrea Yates, the mentally-ill Houston mom who drowned her five children in the bathtub in 2001. O’Malley’s expansive writing resumé includes working as an editor for Esquire and New York magazines, as an investigative journalist, and as a screenwriter for film, stage, and television.

She co-produced the 2007 documentary UNBORN IN THE USA: INSIDE THE WAR ON ABORTION about the 30-plus year offense waged against Roe v. Wade. The film is a candidate for a Writers Guild of America feature-length documentary award. O’Malley is a past Writer-in-Residence at Rice University, lectures at Yale University and is a member of the Harvard Program in Psychiatry and the Law, PEN, Phi Beta Kappa, WGA, DGA, and SAG. Her TV screenwriting credits include the Emmy-winning LAW & ORDER. She is a former board member of the Writers’ Guild of America. Ms. O’Malley spends her time in New York City and Texas.

Blog Entries by Suzanne O'Malley

Client 9

Posted March 11, 2008 | 06:50 PM (EST)


It was hell going up and down in the elevator at 985 Fifth Avenue with Eliot Spitzer and his wife and three young daughters, pretending everything was fine. I was their occasional neighbor until four years ago, frequently staying in the apartment of a friend whose master bedroom was directly...

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I Drink Your Milkshake, Friendo

Posted February 28, 2008 | 04:03 PM (EST)


Nothing like going for a swim with Anton Chigurh -- er, Best Supporting Actor Javier Bardem -- the cattle gun-carrying serial killer in Best Picture No Country for Old Men. His deadly-white countenance and horrible haircut were every bit as repellent in person as on screen. I drank my mid-day...

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Hillary's Hair: Ready on Day One

Posted February 14, 2008 | 02:41 PM (EST)


By George, she's got it. I think she's got it! Hillary's 35 years of service earned her more than experience; it has given her what until now has been impossible for women--presidential hair.

She has battled her way through too long, too short, too frizzy, too straight, too big, too...

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What Do JFK and Huckabee Have in Common?

Posted February 7, 2008 | 02:16 PM (EST)


A few days after Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama, I was training new voice-recognition software to understand my dictation. The set-up menu gave me several choices of things to read into a microphone. One was the Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy.

After noticing that Obama's slogan...

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Can I Have A Dream?: Endorsing Clinton

Posted January 11, 2008 | 02:39 PM (EST)


Was there a press blackout on mentioning that Hillary Clinton made history in New Hampshire? The first woman to win a major presidential primary.

I like Obama. A lot. I like Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech." A lot. It's nice that Obama can talk about realizing Dr....

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Unborn in the USA

Posted October 25, 2007 | 03:00 PM (EST)


This week a movie that I produced on the history of the anti-abortion movement, Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion, comes out on DVD. I hope you will buy it and watch it. But in the meantime, has anyone noticed that there are five Catholic justices on...

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