![]() We pitched this to Lyn Bolin who was in charge of Daytime Television at NBC but nothing came of it. We had an idea for a soap opera about an adopted girl looking for her real mother. I went to Hollywood because of another writer, Nancy Dowd. That article, ‘Traveling at 2000 m.p.h,’ I sent that in cold and the feature editor, Barbara Goldsmith, rang me and said she was printing it and to continue submitting any work I wrote. I still have a copy of the check with a note to my parents. And that first check equally thrilled me. Seeing my name in print the first time thrilled me like no other thrill. My next assignment was for Harper’s Bazaar, the women’s fashion magazine – it’s printed in the book. I won a trip to Albany, the state capital and a photo with Nelson Rockefeller who must have been governor and $50 for first prize. I chose the origin of the name to the nearby village of Horseheads. I think I was in the sixth grade in Elmira, New York. My first try at writing was a contest for the New York State Historical Society. Job sounds a funny description for those 26 letters. Laurel Zuckerman : What was your first job writing? How did you get into screenwriting? In collaboration with the acclaimed designer Irma Boom, Jennifer has created a searingly personal memoir so remarkable in design and content that it will be exhibited at the MOMA and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was a kind of mothering from a distance.» « I wrote 1000 postcards to our daughter, Georgina, from 1989 to 1999. Here, Laurel Zuckerman, director of Paris Writers’ News, shares an excerpt of her latest Authors on Authors interview with the Library. We look forward to welcoming Jennifer Butler to the Library on Wednesday 6 April at 19h30 and hope to see you for an engaging conversation with the author. The postcards record the 268,162 miles driven, 2 bullfights, 1 speeding ticket, 53 unpaid parking tickets as well as 205 church stops, candle after candle lit in hope. But he could drive a car from A to B, have a sense of pleasure and not drink – so in an irritable panic I made the decision to take him on a road trip to dry him out, leaving our daughter at home with nannies. Jennifer explains: James was drinking himself to death. The memoir is told through postcards that Jennifer wrote to Georgina over a decade. The memoir James Jennifer Georgina illustrates author Jennifer Butler’s struggle of dealing with her husband’s alcoholism while trying to shield her daughter Georgina. Fall 2023 Workshop: Channeling History with Ladee Hubbard.She’s originally from Mississippiīutler was born in Magnolia, Mississippi, and graduated from Jackson State University, one of the largest HBCUs in the US, in 2001. She’s a longtime ally of Kamala Harrisīutler played a major role in Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign while working at SCRB Strategies, but their connection goes back much further, with Butler helping Harris negotiate a shared SEIU endorsement when she ran for California attorney general in 2010. Prior to her work at EMILY’s List, Butler spent a decade as president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015, the country’s largest home-care and nursing-home workers union this context made it surprising to some when she represented Uber in its 2019 fight to avoid classifying its drivers as employees. She has a long (and complex) history of working in organized labor ![]() Every day I am driven by my mother’s example and my daughter’s future.” She’s making LGBTQ+ historyīutler-who lives with her partner, Neneki Lee, and their daughter, Nylah, in Maryland (and will be reregistering to vote in California before taking office)-is the first openly lesbian woman to represent California in the Senate, despite the state’s long history of progressive politics and pro-LGBTQ+ legislation. She was the first Black woman to lead EMILY’s ListĮMILY’s List, a Democratic PAC devoted to helping pro-choice female candidates run for office, made Butler its president in 2021, and later that year, she spoke to Essence about the historic nature of her position, saying: “As the first woman of color and first mother in this role, I am proud to bring my lived experiences along with my organizing and political experiences to the job. Below, find everything you need to know about California’s newest senator. ![]()
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