Gabrielle Burton

Gabrielle Burton (born Gabrielle Diane Bridget Baker; February 21, 1939 – September 3, 2015) was an American feminist novelist and screenwriter. Biography She was born in Lansing, Michigan to Clifford and Helen (née Dailey) Baker. She attended Marygrove College and then the American Film Institute at age 56. She was awarded AFI’s Mary Pickford Prize for top screenplay. Her best-known novels were I’m Running Away From Home but I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women’s Liberation, Heartbreak Hotel, Impatient With Desire and Searching for Tamsen Donner. Burton was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in 2000 for her screenplay The Imperial Waltz. An early feminist in second wave feminism, Burton traveled with Gloria Steinem to talk about her experience as a mother of five daughters (film director Maria Burton, film producer Jennifer Burton, actor/director Ursula Burton, director/writer Gabrielle C. Burton, and producer and teacher Charity Burton); she and her husband Roger Burton would speak as a couple to crowds or in living room intimate settings among neighbors about the impact of working for equality for men and women, and how this would help family dynamics.