Gabrielle B. Burton(1939-2015)

Award-winning novelist and screenwriter, Gabrielle was named a Nicholl Screenwriting Fellow by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was also selected for the IFP/West screen writing workshop and to attend the Equinoxe Screenwriting Conference in Bordeaux, France. She is the author of the non-fiction book, "I'm Running Away From Home But I'm Not Allowed To Cross The Street". Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Family Circle and The Buffalo News. She received her MFA from the American Film Institute, where two of her short films were produced. Her novel, Heartbreak Hotel, was awarded the Maxwell Perkins Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Originally published by Charles Scribner & Sons, it was also published by Trevi in Sweden, as a King Penguin Original in the U.K., a Viking Penguin Contemporary Classic, and was recently republished by the prestigious Dalkey Archive Press. Her numerous awards include a Buffalo Arts Council grant (which resulted in the screenplay Manna from Heaven (2002)), the Mary Pickford Prize for screen writing from AFI, and the Austin Film Festival's top prize for screen writing.