Linda Burstyn - Work Hard And Smart - From Political Wonk to Master Storyteller

11/02/21 • 52 min

Linda had several careers in her life before her current one as a Writer for television dramas. She has been a political writer, a TV news producer, a journalist, and a feminist activist.

(She wrote a powerful article about female genital mutilation in America, which you can read here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/10/female-circumcision-comes-to-america/306051/.)

Some of her TV writing/producing credits include The Education of Max Bickford, State of Affairs, In Plain Sight, NCIS and Chasing Life.

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Linda had several careers in her life before her current one as a Writer for television dramas. She has been a political writer, a TV news producer, a journalist, and a feminist activist.

(She wrote a powerful article about female genital mutilation in America, which you can read here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/10/female-circumcision-comes-to-america/306051/.)

Some of her TV writing/producing credits include The Education of Max Bickford, State of Affairs, In Plain Sight, NCIS and Chasing Life.

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