Diane English (born May 18, 1948) is an American screenwriter,
producer and director, best known for creating the television show
Murphy Brown and writing and directing the 2008 feature film The
Women.English was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Anne
English and Richard English who was an electrical engineer. She
graduated from Nardin Academy in Buffalo, and then from Buffalo State
College in 1970.English began her career at WNET, the PBS affiliate in
New York City, working first as a story editor for The Theatre in
America series, and then as associate director of TV Lab. From 1977 to
1980, she wrote a monthly column on television for Vogue magazine.In
1980, she co-wrote PBS' The Lathe of Heaven, an adaptation of Ursula
K. LeGuin's science fiction novel of the same name, and received her
first Writers Guild Award Nomination. She followed that with the
television movies Her Life as a Man (1984) and Classified Love (1986).
producer and director, best known for creating the television show
Murphy Brown and writing and directing the 2008 feature film The
Women.English was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Anne
English and Richard English who was an electrical engineer. She
graduated from Nardin Academy in Buffalo, and then from Buffalo State
College in 1970.English began her career at WNET, the PBS affiliate in
New York City, working first as a story editor for The Theatre in
America series, and then as associate director of TV Lab. From 1977 to
1980, she wrote a monthly column on television for Vogue magazine.In
1980, she co-wrote PBS' The Lathe of Heaven, an adaptation of Ursula
K. LeGuin's science fiction novel of the same name, and received her
first Writers Guild Award Nomination. She followed that with the
television movies Her Life as a Man (1984) and Classified Love (1986).
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