Searching for Tamsen Donner

Gabrielle Burton was born Gabrielle Diane Bridget Baker on February 21, 1939 in Lansing, Michigan. She received a bachelor's degree from Marygrove College in Detroit and a master's degree from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She wrote several books including I'm Running Away from Home, but I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation, Searching for Tamsen Donner, and Impatient with Desire. Heartbreak Hotel won the Maxwell Perkins Prize for outstanding first novel. She also wrote the screenplay Manna from Heaven, a film starring Shirley Jones and Cloris Leachman. She died of pancreatic cancer on September 3, 2015 at the age of 76.

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