Award-winning writer and professor Georgia Jeffries joins Cynthia Bemis Abrams to reflect on her pioneering work in television and screenwriting. From her early magazine articles to Emmy-winning work on Cagney and Lacey, China Beach and ...See moreAward-winning writer and professor Georgia Jeffries joins Cynthia Bemis Abrams to reflect on her pioneering work in television and screenwriting. From her early magazine articles to Emmy-winning work on Cagney and Lacey, China Beach and Sisters, Jeffries reveals how she broke into Hollywood's writers' rooms and built a career defined by dramatic integrity and feminist storytelling. In this rich conversation, Georgia discusses her transition from journalism to writing TV scripts on spec; championing women writers through her work with the Writers Guild; how writing fiction compares to television; and her 2024 novel The Younger Girl, based on real events in Illinois.
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