Gabrielle Burton

Gabrielle Burton
Born (1939-02-21)February 21, 1939
Lansing, Michigan
Died September 3, 2015(2015-09-03) (aged 76)
Language English
Education Marygrove College
American Film Institute

Gabrielle Burton (born Gabrielle Diane Bridget Baker; August 21, 1939 – September 3, 2015) was an American feminist novelist and screenwriter.

Biography

She was born in Lansing, Michigan to Clifford and Helen (née Dailey) Baker. She attended Marygrove College and then the American Film Institute at age 56. She was awarded AFI’s Mary Pickford Prize for top screenplay.[1]

Her best-known novels were I’m Running Away From Home but I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women’s Liberation, Heartbreak Hotel, Impatient With Desire and Searching for Tamsen Donner. Burton was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in 2000.

An early feminist in second wave feminism,[2] Burton traveled with Gloria Steinem to talk about her experience as a mother of five daughters (film director Maria Burton, film producer Jennifer Burton, actor/director Ursula Burton, director/writer Gabrielle C. Burton, and producer and teacher Charity Burton); she and her husband Roger Burton would speak as a couple to crowds or in living room intimate settings among neighbors about the impact of working for equality for men and women, and how this would help family dynamics.

Burton studied psychology at Marygrove College,[3] the first in her family to go to college. She then became a missionary in Barbados for a year, followed by moving to Washington D.C. to become a teacher. Her husband joined the NIMH (National Institute for Mental Health) as a researcher of child development, after his work in Europe with Jean Piaget; his most well known contribution is in the field of children and the development of morality. He also developed a study to look at gender influence in audiences watching films, creating a system of ocular movement observation through the movie screen which was later copied by other researchers; Gabrielle Burton's understanding of psychology research created a solid team as a couple which influenced their decision to move to Buffalo, New York to actively pursue raising children as a parenting team.

In 2002, she wrote the screen play for Manna from Heaven.[4]

Upon her death, Gabrielle Burton was included in the Academy of Motion Pictures "In Memoriam" for the Oscars.[5]

Death

Gabrielle Baker Burton died of pancreatic cancer in Venice, California on September 3, 2015, aged 76.[4] When she died, she had been working on a book called Don't Sit Down Yet.

Publications

  • I’m Running Away From Home but I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women’s Liberation (1972)
  • Heartbreak Hotel (1986)
  • Searching for Tamsen Donner (2009)
  • Impatient With Desire (2010)

References

  1. ↑ "Gabrielle Burton, Novelist Who Decided to Attend AFI Film School at Age 56, Dies at 76". Variety.com. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. ↑ fr:Deuxième vague féministe
  3. ↑ "GABRIELLE BAKER BURTON '60".
  4. 1 2 "Gabrielle Burton, Feminist Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 76". The New York Times. September 9, 2015. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ http://oscar.go.com/photos/2016/oscars-2016-in-memoriam-photos/gabrielle_burton
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