Judith Paige Mitchell
Judith Paige Segel | |
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Born | November 24, 1932 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Died | February 10, 2010 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 77)
Pen name | Paige Mitchell |
Notable works | The Client (1995–96) |
Judith Paige Mitchell (1932–2010) was a television writer, executive producer and novelist.[1][2]
Biography[]
Judith Paige Segel was a native of New Orleans. Her parents were George Jacob Segel 1906-1993 and Esther Finerosky 1908-1995. She started her career as a novelist, her subjects including integration and civil rights. She moved to Los Angeles in 1965 after divorcing her first husband Alvin Binder, a noted civil rights attorney in Jackson, MS, and also worked in television as a writer and producer, with many topics focused on true crime. Mitchell died of cancer in Los Angeles on February 10, 2010, survived by her husband and well-known Los Angeles publisher Jeremy Tarcher and three children who are Lisa Paige, Mitchell, and Michael Binder.[2][3]
Literary credits[]
- A Wilderness of Monkeys (1965)
- Love is Not a Safe Country (1968)
- The Mayfly (1971)
- The Covenant, a Novel (1973)
- Act of Love (1976)[4] (adapted into 1980 television movie of the same name)
- Wild Seed (1982)
Teleplay credits[]
- Desperate for Love (1989)
- Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
- Young at Heart (1995 TV movie) (1995)
- (1998)
References[]
- ^ "Passings". The Los Angeles Times. February 14, 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Variety Staff (February 22, 2010). "Writer Judith Paige Mitchell dies". Variety.
- ^ Sharkey, BetsBy (22 October 1995). Twists and Turns on the Southern Landscape, The New York Times, Sec. 2, p. 37.
- ^ Cook, Fred J. (4 April 1976). Act of Love (book review), The New York Times
External links[]
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- Writers from New Orleans
- 20th-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American television writers
- Deaths from cancer in California
- 20th-century American women writers
- Novelists from Louisiana
- Screenwriters from California
- Screenwriters from Louisiana
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