{{short description|American novelist}} {{Infobox writer |name=Sara Davidson |image= |imagesize= |alt= |caption= |pseudonym= |birth_name= |birth_date={{Birth year and age|1943}}<ref name="harpers-davidson-sara" /> |birth_place=United States |death_date= |death_place= |occupation=Novelist, journalist,<ref name="wakefield2007" /> producer |nationality= |ethnicity= |citizenship= |education= |alma_mater=University of California, Berkeley<ref name="wakefield2007" /> |period= |genre= |subject= |movement= |notableworks=''Loose Change''<ref name="harmetz1978" /> |spouse= |partner= |children= |relatives= |influences= |influenced= |awards= |signature= |website={{URL|http://saradavidson.com}} |portaldisp= }}
'''Sara Davidson''' (born 1943)<ref name="harpers-davidson-sara" /> is an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.<ref name="wakefield2007">{{Cite news |first=Dan |last=Wakefield |title=Finding a new way forward |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/02/25/finding_a_new_way_forward/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023131417/http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/02/25/finding_a_new_way_forward/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |work=The Boston Globe |date=2007-02-25 |access-date=2009-06-07}}</ref><!-- and radio host. //3rd party source req.--> She is the author of the best-selling ''Loose Change''.<ref name="harmetz1978">{{Cite news |first=Aljean |last=Harmetz |title=Mini-series offer big gambles and rewards |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JOISAAAAIBAJ&pg=6951,5697769&dq=sara+davidson+loose-change |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124193819/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JOISAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BPsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6951,5697769&dq=sara+davidson+loose-change |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-24 |work=The Ledger |location=Lakeland, Florida |page=9B |date=1978-04-20 |access-date=2009-06-07 |quote="Loose Change," based on a best-selling book by Sara Davidson}} . From ''The New York Times''</ref> It was adapted as a television mini-series. In addition, she has written other series and served as producer.
==Early life and education== Davidson grew up in California and graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Classmates - Find your school, yearbooks and alumni online|url=https://secure.classmates.com/auth/login?successUrl=/siteui/yearbooks/4182830235%3fpage=56|access-date=2022-01-29|website=secure.classmates.com}}</ref> She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="wakefield2007" /> She also attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and started her writing career as a journalist.
==Journalist== Davidson's first job was as a reporter with the ''Boston Globe''.<ref name="wakefield2007" /><!--, where she became a national correspondent, covering topics from the election campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon to the Woodstock Festival and the student strike at Columbia University.--> She has also written for magazines including ''The Atlantic Monthly'',<ref name="applegate1996" /> ''Esquire'',<ref name="applegate1996" /> ''Harper's Magazine'',<ref name="harpers-davidson-sara">{{Cite magazine |title=Davidson, Sara (1943–) |url=http://www.harpers.org/subjects/SaraDavidson |magazine=Harper's Magazine |access-date=2009-06-07}}</ref><ref name="applegate1996" /><ref name="SDBio">{{cite web |last = Davidson |first = Sara |title = Biography |url = http://www.saradavidson.com/bio.html |access-date = 2009-06-08 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090720110737/http://www.saradavidson.com/bio.html |archivedate = 2009-07-20 }}</ref> ''Life'',<ref name="applegate1996" /> ''McCall's,''<ref name="applegate1996" /> ''Ms.,''<ref name="applegate1996">{{cite book |last=Applegate |first=Edd |title=Literary journalism: a biographical dictionary of writers and editors |url=https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl |url-access=registration |quote=davidson sara journalism columbia. |access-date=2009-06-09 |year=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=0-313-29949-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl/page/58 58]}}</ref> ''The New York Times Magazine'',<ref name="applegate1996" /> ''Newsweek'',<ref name="SDBio" /><ref name="davidson2008">{{Cite news |first=Sara |last=Davidson |title=My Mother's Case of 'Pleasant Dementia' |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/158757 |work=Newsweek |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2009-06-07}}</ref> ''O, The Oprah Magazine'',<ref name="SDBio" /><ref name="o2003">{{Cite news |first=Sara |last=Davidson |title=Murder in Westwood. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22522076_ITM |work=O, The Oprah Magazine |date=2003-03-01 |access-date=2009-06-07}}</ref> ''Ramparts''<ref name="applegate1996" /> and ''Rolling Stone''.<ref name="applegate1996" />
==Personal== In 1968, she was briefly married to Jonathan Schwartz, a popular-music radio deejay in New York City. She later married again, to a Los Angeles businessman. They had a son and a daughter together, but were divorced.<ref name=Wadler>{{cite news|last=Wadler|first=Joyce|title=A new chapter for Sara Davidson, a voice of the boomers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/arts/01iht-boomer.4763796.html?scp=4&sq=Sara%20Davidson%202007&st=cse|work=New York Times|access-date=1 August 2011|date=2007-03-01}}</ref>
In the 1990s she had an affair with "real-life cowboy" Richard Goff. Their relationship inspired her largely autobiographical novel ''Cowboy''(1999).<ref name=Warrick>{{cite news|last=Warrick|first=Pamela|title=Love on the Range|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-22-cl-19667-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=1 August 2011|date=1999-03-22}}</ref>
==Books==
*1977 ''Loose Change: three women of the sixties'',<ref name="saradavidson-books">{{Cite web |title = Sara Davidson Books |url = http://www.saradavidson.com/books.html |access-date = 2009-06-07 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090720110752/http://www.saradavidson.com/books.html |archivedate = 2009-07-20 }}</ref><ref name="books-google-loose-change">{{Cite book |title=Loose change by Sara Davidson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgq7AAAAIAAJ |isbn = 9780385036306|accessdate=2009-06-07|last1 = Davidson|first1 = Sara|year = 1977| publisher=Doubleday }}</ref> This was adapted as a television mini-series airing in 1978.<ref name="imdb-loose-change">{{Cite web |title="Loose Change" (1978) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077043/ |work=IMDb |access-date=2009-06-07}}</ref> *1980 ''Real Property''<ref name="saradavidson-books" /><ref name="books-google-real-property">{{Cite book |title=Real property by Sara Davidson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSoeAAAAMAAJ |isbn = 9780385155731|access-date=2009-06-07|last1 = Davidson|first1 = Sara|year = 1980| publisher=Doubleday }}</ref> *1984 ''Friends of the Opposite Sex'', {{ISBN|0-385-13381-2}}<ref name="saradavidson-books" /><ref name="books-google-friends-of">{{Cite book |title=Friends of the opposite sex by Sara Davidson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCCaAAAAIAAJ |isbn = 9780385133814|access-date=2009-06-07|last1 = Davidson|first1 = Sara|year = 1984| publisher=Doubleday }}</ref> *1986 ''Rock Hudson: his Story'', written with Rock Hudson, {{ISBN|0-688-06472-8}}<ref name="saradavidson-books" /><ref name="books-google-rock-hudson">{{Cite book |title=Rock Hudson: his story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXVZAAAAMAAJ |isbn = 9780688064723|access-date=2009-06-07|last1 = Hudson|first1 = Rock|last2 = Davidson|first2 = Sara|year = 1986| publisher=Morrow }}</ref> *1999 ''Cowboy'', {{ISBN|0-06-019326-3}}<ref name="saradavidson-books" /><ref name="books-google-cowboy">{{Cite book |title=Cowboy by Sara Davidson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4xaAAAAMAAJ |isbn = 9780060193263|access-date=2009-06-07|last1 = Davidson|first1 = Sara|year = 1999| publisher=Cliff Street Books }}</ref> *2007 ''Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?'', {{ISBN|978-0-345-47808-5}}<ref name="saradavidson-leap">{{Cite web |title = Sara Davidson LEAP! |url = http://www.saradavidson.com/LEAP.html |access-date = 2009-06-07 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090720110732/http://www.saradavidson.com/LEAP.html |archivedate = 2009-07-20 }}</ref><ref name="books-google-leap">{{Cite book |title=Leap! by Sara Davidson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntkXLWLruCIC |isbn = 9780345478085|access-date=2009-06-07|last1 = Davidson|first1 = Sara|year = 2007| publisher=Random House }}</ref><ref name="NYTWadler">{{cite news |first=Joyce |last=Wadler |title=Writing Her Own Sequel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/garden/01davidson.html?_r=1&sq=Leap!%20%20What%20Will%20We%20Do%20with%20the%20Rest%20of%20Our%20Lives&st=cse&scp=4&pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |date=March 1, 2007 |access-date=June 8, 2009}}</ref> *2012 ''Joan: Forty Years of Life, Loss, and Friendship with Joan Didion'', {{ISBN|978-1-61452-016-0}} *2014 ''The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery.'' *2023 ''The Didion Files: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion''
==Television== Davidson's novel ''Loose Change'' (1977) was adapted for a mini-series. In addition, she wrote and produced a number of television series. She created the series ''Jack and Mike'' (1986),<ref name="NYTJM">{{cite news |title=Jack and Mike |url=http://tv.nytimes.com/show/156797/Jack-and-Mike/details |work=Television |publisher=The New York Times |year=2009 |access-date=2009-06-08}}</ref> and ''HeartBeat'' (1988).<ref name="NYTHB">{{cite news |title=HeartBeat |url=http://tv.nytimes.com/show/156279/HeartBeat/details |work=Television |publisher=The New York Times |year=2009 |access-date=2009-06-08}}</ref> She was the co-executive producer for ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman''.<ref name="sara-davidson-radio">{{Cite web |title = Sara Davidson Radio and television |url = http://www.saradavidson.com/radio.htm |access-date = 2009-06-07 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090202160825/http://saradavidson.com/radio.htm |archivedate = 2009-02-02 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.saradavidson.com/}} *{{IMDb name|0203491}} *[http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-004.html An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights] from ''Life'' magazine, by Sara Davidson (1969)
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