Cari Beauchamp is the author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion andthe Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and five other books on film history. She has written for Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, the New York Times, and the Los AngelesTimes, in addition to Alta. She has written and produced documentaries and her work has been nominated for an Emmy and a Writers Guild award. She is the only person to twice be named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar.
