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LINDA WOOLVERTON
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Broadway: Beauty and the Beast (Tony nomination). She is a native of Long Beach,
California, and holds a masters degree in Theatre for Children from Cal State
Fullerton. In 1980, she moved into film and TV by beginning a four-year stint as an
executive for CBS-TV. She wrote two young adult novels, Starwind and Running Before the
Wind. When one of her novels came to the attention of a Disney executive, she was hired to
work on the animated feature Beauty and the Beast (Golden Globe winner and Academy Award
Best Picture nominee). Woolverton wrote the screenplay for the live-action feature
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and co-wrote the screenplay for The Lion King. She
recently wrote the book for Elton John and Tim Rices Elaborate Lives: The Legend of
Aida, for Walt Disney Theatrical Productions. Linda Woolverton and her husband Lee Flicker
are the proud parents of a daughter, Keaton.

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