About
The Author
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TINA
ANDREWS is one of Hollywood's most in demand writers. She recently
won the prestigious Writers Guild of America Award, 2001 for Outstanding
Original Television Longform Script; and the 2001 NAACP Image Award
for Outstanding Miniseries, Television Movie or Dramatic Special for
"Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." Miss Andrews wrote and Co-Executive
produced the highly-rated, critically acclaimed CBS miniseries which
dealt with the controversial relationship between third president
Thomas Jefferson, and slave paramour, Sally Hemings.
She was also writer and co-executive
producer of the miniseries "Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and scripted
the Warner Bros. film, "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" which starred
Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox and Little Richard. Andrews has appeared
on "E! Entertainment television"; "Frontline" and "The Oprah Show."
After attending New York University, this native of Chicago, Illinois
appeared on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly" and on television in the highly
acclaimed miniseries "Roots" and the daytime drama, "Days of our Lives."
Andrews has written several short stories, screenplays and essays--one
of which appears in "The First Time I Got Paid For It: Writers Tales
From The Hollywood Trenches" published by Public Affairs. In 1998,
Andrews was named one of "50 To Watch" by Daily Variety. Andrews is
married to documentary filmmaker Stephen Gaines and lives in Malibu,
California. She is working on a miniseries based on the life of Mrs.
Coretta Scott King, as well as her next book, "Daughters of the Declaration"
a sequel to her Sally Hemings saga.
Special Links
> Listen to
an excerpt from "Sally Hemings An American Scandal" by Tina Andrews
> Read
an interview on Tina Andrews from her cover story in "Written
By" magazine
> Read an excerpt
from "Sally Hemings An American Scandal"
> Visit the official Tina Andrews
web site at: www.TinaAndrews.com
> View
and/or purchase Tina's essay in "The First Time I Got Paid For
It Writers tales From The Hollywood Trenches"
>
For more information or to read or purchase other books on the subject
of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings please see: "Jefferson's Children
One American Family" by Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman (web info
here) "President In The Family" by Byron Woodson at: (web info here).,
"Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson an American Controversy" by Annette
Gordon Reed. (web info here) "Thomas Jefferson An Intimate History"
by Fawn Brodie (web info here)
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