13 Oct 2018

Robin Green - The Only Girl

From Saturday Morning, 9:28 am on 13 October 2018

In the wild 1970s, Robin Green was the only woman writing for Rolling Stone magazine and she has recently published a funny, candid, tell-all memoir - The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine. Described by one reviewer as "a fascinatingly direct account of a woman in a man's world", Green recounts how she was removed from the magazine's masthead, in a chapter called "A Big Journalistic No-No". She went on to write for TV shows The Sopranos and Northern Exposure, and created, with her husband Mitchell Burgess, the CBS drama, Blue Bloods. She is an alumna of Brown University and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Green won an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards for her work on Northern Exposure. She was awarded the 2001 and 2003 Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of The Sopranos, as well as in 2004 for Outstanding Drama Series. In addition she has won two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe for that show.