Pamela Marin was a staff writer for the Orange County Register, and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Tribeca Trib. Her reporting and essays have appeared in Playboy, Redbook, Parents and other magazines. She wrote and recorded a piece that was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2001. Her memoir, Motherland, was named one of the best books of 2005 by the Chicago Tribune. Her adaptation of the book Tommy's Honour opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016 and won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Feature Film.

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Pamela Marin

Writer